Marco,
You misunderstood this one.We bought the Aero 3 in favour of the Dry Martini because Aero 3 was supposely lighter and faster. And yes I also think Magoon picked the best boat and rigging, serving as a test boat for Kiekhaefer for the first fuel injection engines as Richie describes above.

I asked the same question to Richie regarding Aeromarine 2, he claims it never existed.

Reg Joern

Sorry Joern! My bad English!
Then that english Dry Martini was the first 36' of Bonomi. Former Aeromarine IX in 1972.
But the Yellowdrama II/Crown of Crucis/Colt Sapporo was the 36' lighter of 1973.
Who was the actual Dry Martini with a cabin and a pleasure deck solding in England now?
And where is the former Yellowdrama II/Crown of.......?

Guys, I was in the Dry Martini, the last time it has ever raced. And probably the only time it has had the original stack fuel injector setup. I think it was the 2004 race in Jersey. It was raced before that in 2003 but not with the original injector setup. Kurt has not raced it since. This is a truly AWESOME boat. It flys like an eagle and lands great...there are pic's of this race and we are 7- 10' out of the water. I can not post the pic's ..but there out there. I was the navigator and feel privileged to be one of the last people to have been in this boat in a real offshore race, as I don't think Kurt will really run this boat in a race anymore. The original drives were taken off the boat for this race as there is no way to get replacemant parts for them...this turned out to be a problem as to gettting the boat on plain...this was not tested before the race.
I could write a whole "blog" about the race in this boat...but I'm sure everybody has a story to tell about every race..lol

I think this is the photo your looking for. OPA - Point Pleasant about 2003.

Yeah, thats the pic. Great shot of the boat. The original Kiekhaefer drives were taken off the boat (which are blue by the way) and if i recall #3's were put on. We had trouble getting out of the hole with those..but once we were up..she flew.

Update of the KAM engine rebuild.
http://www.kurtsmarine.com/restoration.html
I was at Kurt's today and they are hard at work rebuilding these engines. I wasn't expecting to see this much progress on the engines. They have quite a bit done already and the blocks will be getting machined shortly.

Check their site regularly as I will be updating the page frequently as well as a projects page in the works to give you an insight into some of the projects going on.

One of those projects being a 27' Formula pleasure boat that Kurt is restoring right now.

WOW.........That all i can say about all this history.


Mike

Nate,

Did you ever return them?

Jeff

anyone have the black squadron cig named dry martini? what happened to it?