Cowes 2017
 

The Dry Martin Cigarette has won the historic class & finished 4th overall in this years Cowes 200 mile real offshore race. The crew of the Dry Martini are Christian Toll, Michael Peet and Jeff Hall the Minnesota Ice Man. This Cigarette is from the mid 70's & still running strong.

Way to go Jeff !!!!

Wow , time flies . I was actually at the factory when the finishing touches were being put on the boat and it was being readied to deliver .
It was just as pretty then as it is now .
Congratulations guys !

BTW , Martini was also a sponsor to team Artemis in this year's America's Cup

----Iceman on the throttles!!!.......Bill S

CONGRATS!!!

Padraig

Dry Martini start up ..

Awards presentation
 

The awards photo shows the winning team with Laura Levi. She is the daughter of Sir Max Aitken, who founded this race in 1961 and she is married to Sonny Levi's son, Martin. Her daughter also raced in the smaller Cowes to Poole race and back this past weekend.

Great to be here and see many old friends...... from Richie Powers to Mike Mantle,
​​​​​​​ the navigator for Dry Martini Cowes wins and also for Betty Cook's win in the late 70's.

And it was great for fans like me to meet you Charlie and meet up again with Richie Powers. Fantastic that you both made it over.

Thanks Nigel, but we are your fans too. So nice to finally meet the master behind all those great shots of real offshore racing over the years. Keep up the good work and hopefully we may have interest in old school racing again.
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Drone footage coming into Torquay.
When the race organizers call this one an "Offshore Race" they're not just peeing on your leg and telling you it's raining.



See you at OFF.
Enjoy,

Jeff

Wow , a sunny calm day in Blighty . It must be what they call an 'Indian Summer' !


GO #9

it's allways sunny here in the uk ! We can have four seasons in a day , tricky part is knowing where to be when the sun pops out .😀😀