Of course I also more to do,Brownie.
I work, as many others here I think, up to 12 hours a day and at night when I'm home, after putting to bed my two children, this chap puts him at the computer to chat with other chaps of his beloved sport.
We're talking about very old things. But this is the forum for older people and boats that we love to talk.
We are not off-topic so I think.
With Graham and Nigel could talk about events in Europe but I think you overseas so totally excluded from participating.
Sorry discover that talking about events in your home the memories are foggy most of those surrounding the Nantucket lighthouse in calm winter.;)

More Confusion
 

In these stories the key to everything is, as always, the accuracy of the size of boats.
17'-27 'Crouse is probably an error of writing or printing. Such as when I fell too on my list I wrote Mercury not Mercruiser.
But there seems to be more confusion between 27' and 28 '. And here it is almost never a simple typo errors but superficial in making news.
With Aronow magnifies the problem because being a boat builder and a untiring experimenter is especially difficult to follow the tail of his panther.
His traces are lost in many directions.
In 1967 he built boats and tried every possible solution of motorization, two boats single-engine, a three-engine outboards, a single engine inboard with V-drive, an inboard twin engines and V-drive and a twin inboard engines with stern drives.
Not satisfied he built and drove at least two other boats with different solution on deck (the 'banana' boat and the type Sedan).
In 1968 the story of his boat gets harder aggravated by the fact that both me and you have little information period. Especially lacking photos as we have shown that they are almost always silenced every speech, writing or bad memories.
So it is possible that after selling his 27' to Martin and lost his new 'Sedan' in the Miami-Nassau has then drove at the Hurricane another 27' Martin's sisterboat.
Martin's son has disappeared from the forums could help us ask his father.
It seems that nobody can or wants to help overseas and
we will stay with doubt again.:traurig001:

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Hey, toughen up a little. I do recall that Aronow ran a 28' (full height) twin Mercruiser 28' Magnum in the 1967 Miami Nassau, and the 1967 Around Nassau.

[So it is possible that after selling his 27' to Martin and lost his new 'Sedan' in the Miami-Nassau has then drove at the Hurricane another 27' Martin's sisterboat.]

It looks like one of these Magnums may have made into the 70's as Preston Henn's Steaker, today ?????????

Magnums -67-68
 

Check King of Thunderboat Row
They were all 27s
some great stories about each

Magnum Info
 

Thanks for the info, Brownie.Not sure if `Toughen up` is a stock U.S. phrase,but when banter verges on a condescending remark,you get a reaction.
Anyway let`s hope we can move on and restore some dialogue, for there doesn`t seem to be many out there that can throw light on these historic questions.One problem is that before `Powerboat` magazine started in 1969,not much was recorded both in magazines and on film that survives to this day.Of course Crousey has been invaluable in his writings even though I do rib him a lot over occasional errors.
Both Marco and myself have a lot of questions that need unravelling,and it`s treading the line between unloading how much and boring the pants off people.Between us we are building a pretty detailed history on the boats both in Europe and U.S. which I would hope can be put on to a website for other devotees to refer to.

It is possible that this may be the second 27' of Aronow for 1968.
And why not the former 27' of Martin ?.....:confused:

Brownie.... according to Crouse at the Around Nassau Aronow drove "Andrea III" the Magoon's 28' with three outboards.:confused:
Do you remember which drive unit had that 28' at the Miami-Nassau? Stern drives or v-drive?

Frames from "Run Sunward" 1967

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The 28' single engine V-drive
 

At the 1967 Miami-Nassau race, burned and sank this 28' "Miller Special" of Jake Trotter.
Frames from the video "Run Sunward" show us the stern with two exhausts of a single engine and no stern drive unit.
Colors seem to be a of the 28' fleet used personally by Aronow.
However, it is the fifth version of a 28' (sixth overall) that Aronow built in 1967.

Graham,Sorry if I stole your picture from the section 'Magazines pics' on Boatmad but was to document the fact only.

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This early 27' Magnum Ob sport, that I believe Bob Nordskog owned & raced at one time, looks to be a 60's Magnum.