Jimmy Hurff

Mechanical engineer, entrepreneur, and lifelong waterman. My foundation is thermal and fluid systems — Florida State, '99 — and that's still how I think about every machine I work on, especially outboard engines.

I co-founded Full Throttle Marine (ftmarine.com) with my son John, a premium mobile marine service operation serving Tampa Bay and the west coast of Florida. Yamaha and Mercury specialists, delivered to your dock. Flat-rate pricing, no trailers, no waiting rooms.

John and I got our start with Here2Fish, LLC (here2fish.com) out of a decades-long love for the salt life — from the St. Augustine flats to two years fishing nearly every day out of Key Largo, chasing snook, mahi, tuna, and wahoo off our NauticStar 227. We now call Palmetto home, and the passion hasn't slowed.

Most at home with salt air, a well-tuned engine, and water moving fast under the hull.