The A|W Chronicle, Part 1: The Beginning April 30, 2023. The day after Luft 9. The decommissioned naval shipyard at Mare Island had just hosted over a thousand air-cooled Porsches and 12,000 people from 48 states and 22 countries. The gates had closed. And Patrick Long was ready to open a different door entirely. Air|Water was born the following morning on the same ground. A natural next chapter from the team behind Luftgekühlt, built around a simple but far-reaching idea: the full Porsche story deserved its own stage. Every era. Every platform. Race and street, vintage and modern, air-cooled and water-cooled, two-door and four. Patrick had spent nearly 20 years as a Porsche factory driver. His career began behind the wheel of a 996. He understood what the water-cooled generation meant to the people who had always loved Porsche but never quite had a gathering to call their own. Transaxle owners. Boxster drivers. GT3 devotees. Cayenne and Taycan owners finding their place in the cul...