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In the 1967 Miami-Nassau, I ran the the 28' "Donzi Baby", which was a modified Daytona tandem drive train, with 427 in. Weber Holman Moodys. All of the Mercury/Mercruiser entries had the wrong alloy in the props, except Carl Moesley, who won the outboard class and was second or third overall. Odell was second class one boat behind me, 30 minutes behind. Kiekhaefer was furious, and ordered all of his boats off the island. Carl and I had breakfast together before the 'around the island' race on Sunday. We devised a plot which we shared with all of the entries, local and international, that when race organizer, Red Crise, waved the flag to start the race, nobody moved in the starting line. After 3 minutes, Aronow waved a lace handerchief, and away we went. Crise was so mad that he refused to pass out the trophies.
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what was the reason to not go on red crises' flag? maybe you stated it but i dont see it in your post
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We didn't like his regal attitude............ Just for fun.
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Originally Posted by BROWNIE
(Post 3075318)
In the 1967 Miami-Nassau, I ran the the 28' "Donzi Baby", which was a modified Daytona tandem drive train, with 427 in. Weber Holman Moodys. All of the Mercury/Mercruiser entries had the wrong alloy in the props, except Carl Moesley, who won the outboard class and was second or third overall. Odell was second class one boat behind me, 30 minutes behind. Kiekhaefer was furious, and ordered all of his boats off the island. Carl and I had breakfast together before the 'around the island' race on Sunday. We devised a plot which we shared with all of the entries, local and international, that when race organizer, Red Crise, waved the flag to start the race, nobody moved in the starting line. After 3 minutes, Aronow waved a lace handerchief, and away we went. Crise was so mad that he refused to pass out the trophies.
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Originally Posted by BROWNIE
(Post 3075345)
We didn't like his regal attitude............ Just for fun.
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Originally Posted by BROWNIE
(Post 3075318)
In the 1967 Miami-Nassau, I ran the the 28' "Donzi Baby", which was a modified Daytona tandem drive train, with 427 in. Weber Holman Moodys. All of the Mercury/Mercruiser entries had the wrong alloy in the props, except Carl Moesley, who won the outboard class and was second or third overall. Odell was second class one boat behind me, 30 minutes behind. Kiekhaefer was furious, and ordered all of his boats off the island. Carl and I had breakfast together before the 'around the island' race on Sunday. We devised a plot which we shared with all of the entries, local and international, that when race organizer, Red Crise, waved the flag to start the race, nobody moved in the starting line. After 3 minutes, Aronow waved a lace handerchief, and away we went. Crise was so mad that he refused to pass out the trophies.
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Two questions for Brownie
Donzi Baby was the former Broad Jumper in 1966 or I remember badly?
I remember once you said that Aronow named his new yard Magnum in reference to the magnum bottle of champagne used in the podiums of the competitions. Do you remember why the name Maltese? http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/4...ottnov69i1.jpg |
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Don Aronow 1967 in Sweden, he won "Getingloppet"
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Originally Posted by Mange
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Don Aronow 1967 in Sweden, he won "Getingloppet"
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Some Light reading
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The tale of the twin engined Maltese Magnum 28 that was sold to Balestrieri.
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