1967-1968 Aronow's boats
03-26-2010 | 07:52 AM
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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.
03-26-2010 | 09:14 AM
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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.
03-26-2010 | 11:16 AM
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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.
here on Lake St Clair. Sadly 
this is how she looked a few years ago. Today [even worse] she sits striped, on the ground with holes in the side were it looks like hilo forks went through her.
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03-26-2010 | 05:01 PM
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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?
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?
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