Hawk racing team
 

I saw a lot of boats in the 80's carry this on their boats. (For example Jesse James)
What was hawk racing team?

Boats powered by Hawk Marine engines?

I thought about that and that could be the case for the Jesse James modified boat, but the open boat used mercruiser engines and drives.

Hawk Racing Engines was owned at times by Craig Barrie and at one point I think Jerry Jacoby. When Craig ran Cigarette, you could order with Mercruiser power or Hawk power. A lot of the race boats at the time, AJAC Hawk (a play on Jerry's initials) and later Cigarette Hawk had Hawk power. A lot of pleasure Cigarettes had Hawk power, including a 1986 35 Cig with a race fairing, 600 hawks and #3SSM's my buddy Gary Brightwell ordered new. Hawk had a lot of lot of talented people, like their drive guru John Klumpjian, who worked for Doller Marine for many years.

this was Craigs boat back in 1987 when he was running CIG. ive only seen one other cigarette hawk and it was red and white

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What a sweet boat

Thank you sir. Its still sitting on the original trailer lol. The dash has been painted and gauges updated but other than that its still in original trim from 1987. Spent the majority of its life in an airplane hanger. Only 240 hours on the ticker

Just looking at the Cigarette Hawk it has the right amount everything going for it.......nothing too overstated or understated.......it just works today as it did 27 years ago.

Close, but.....Jerry Jacoby owned a successful transmission parts company in NY called AJAC. The initials were a take off of his wife Arlene's name with the Jacoby, not Jerry's. He raced a series of boats first named JJ's Joint and then AJAC Hawk. He was the one who talked Aronow into blocking the 39 foot by 8 foot wide mold down to 37.6 feet. They took a deck from the old 36 race deck mold and cut it narrower and lengthened it and that boat eventually became known as the Cigarette Top Gun. At some point in the 80's Craig came along with the Brut sponsorship and became a member of the riding crew on the race boat. The engine shop,was always Jerry's from the beginning.

Keith Hazell throttled for Jerry as well