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If you were ever in the market to pick up a piece of boat racing history, the upcoming Duemilla Route auction held by RM Sotheby’s may have what you are looking for. You’ll have to make the journey to Milan, Italy, but the items on hand may be worth the journey for the determined collector.

On the block are over 30 pieces of racing history, mostly Formula One type racing boats with a single offshore showpiece, the 1984 CUV Offshore Class 1 “Miura” Vee Race Boat sporting twin staggered Lamborghini engines. The Formula One boats too have their share of history in them, several sporting classic Mercury Outboard engines from a bygone era. The Auction will be held the 25th thru 27th of November.

Check out all the listings here!

 

lllllllllllllThe news of the loss of Garth Tagge and Jim Melley came from an old friend and to say I was shocked would be wrong. I became debilitated, unable to move, think, and really grasp what the real news was.  I know as a powerboating media outlet there is the obligation to report and get the news out but I just could not move to even press a key or look at a facebook page. It was too hard, too close, and much too hard to believe.

To suggest I knew Garth and Jim well would not be real, but what I know to be very real is what everyone who knew them well or not also knew. They were wonderful gentlemen and it was always a highlight to see them. Myself and everyone I know always looked forward to be able to say hello, spend some time, and just be around these two wonderful and gracious guys. We rarely talked about boats, props, or set up.  We talked about family, friends, life and general fun nonsense.

I feel privileged to be able to say I knew them and all of us at Powerboat Nation as well as the entire powerboating community feel a huge sense of loss and send our deepest condolences to the families and friends of Garth Tagge and Jim Melley.

God Speed…

 

 

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Tomorrow marks the first day of the U.S. Powerboat Show in Annapolis, M.D.. Event organizers are touting this to be the largest Annapolis powerboat show since 2008 with over 350 boats anticipated to be on display.

“We are proud to be able to offer our visitors the opportunity to shop from 40 fishing boat manufacturers, dozens of trawlers and Down East boats and every other type of boat imaginable. It is exciting to see the depth and breadth of the offerings in this year’s show,” Annapolis Boat Shows president and general manager Paul Jacobs said in a statement. – (Trade Only Today)

This is the 45th anniversary of the show so this year event organizers have planned to give away an EdgeWater 170CC Deep-V powerboat as the grand prize!

The event will take place tomorrow through Sunday so make sure you stop by to take advantage of the demos and seat trials as well as get a close up look at all of the impressive in-water displays.

See the original article here. 

We’ve given our old PBN store a highly anticipated and much needed face lift, making it easier than ever to find and buy the powerboating gear you love most!

With the year coming to a close, signaling the end of the powerboating season, there’s only a limited amount of time to show off your passion for powerboating at local and national events like Key West Worlds coming up in November. We have everything from women’s tanks and T’s to men’s beanies and long sleeve shirts and everything in between.  So go take a look at our brand new store and see what perfectly exemplifies your powerboating passion!

See what’s new and perfect for you RIGHT HERE!

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There are pretty much two schools of thought when it comes to powerboating and noise: You’re either the type that crave the roar and echoes of horsepower or you’re the type that wants to enjoy the sound of the wind in your hair and nature as opposed to the loud bark keeping you from a pleasant conversation with your passengers.

If you’re the latter the solution might just not only be simple but remarkably affordable. Hardin Marine has been building exhaust and silencer/mufflers for over three decades and they have determined in applications of 425 Horsepower or less a simple “Slip-in” insert style muffler/silencer that can be slid into most 4″ tube style exhaust tips and retained with a single bolt is the perfect solution.

We decided to turn our lovely PBN spokeswomen to a task so easy even a cavewoman could do it.  For the technical background here’s some facts we picked up. In order to reduce sound you need to be able to deflect it direction. The silencers do just exactly that. By creating a chamber effect of dampening slot the exhaust flow is redirected around the silencers diversion plate through a series of slots with a greater surface area than even the pipe itself. This is what allows these silencers to perform so well and allow for no power reduction in applications of 425 horsepower or less.  So in a world of escalating costs it’s such a breath of fresh air to see an affordable yet easy to install solution to taming the roar of many powerboat engines.

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Saturday afternoon, a motorized yacht carrying 30 people, 27 adults and 3 juveniles, sank approximately 100 yards off Pier 45 in San Francisco. Police say the boat was designed to carry 10 to 12 people but the amount on board was almost triple the capacity, causing the boat to become top heavy and capsize.

Two children ages 4 and 5 almost drowned in the incident and were admitted to the hospital in critical condition. The Fire Department reports that one of the boys was pulled from the water unconscious and not breathing but both boys were recently released and in good condition

READ THE REST OF THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM THE SF GATE HERE!

On a scale of 1 to 10, the boating life that we enjoyed in the middle 60’s was about a 23. We got to hang around with the cream of the crop of offshore racing in those days, Aronow, Bertram, Wynne, Sopwith, Max Aitken, Sonny Levi, Odell Lewis, Johnny Bakos, Dave Craig, Gale and Rene’ Jacoby, John Holman, Carl Kiekhaefer (I was allowed to hang around Carl because I was the only one who could spell his name), Dinny Phipps, Red Crise, John Crouse and a hundred others. We lived for racing each other in the ocean, and the thought that one of us “little guys” could knock off one of the PR firm inflated “Gods” gave us the adrenaline to work all night on our race boats, and the thirst to drink a case of beer while we were doing it!

I was in my fourth year at Donzi Marine, the first real sport boat company. Don Aronow had started Donzi Marine in 1964 after selling Formula Marine to Thunderbird Boats, with Merrick Lewis and Dick Genth at the helm. We didn’t consider the Formula 233 to be a true sport boat, as one might actually land a smelly fish, and compromise the beer box. After less than one year, Don sold the Donzi company to Teleflex, Inc, a bunch of Canadians now invading North Wales, Pa. Don ripped them a new one on the sale of the company. He left the staff of Donzi intact, taking only Jake Trotter, our fiberglass foreman, and his extremely willing secretary.

In that first year, we had built, to Wynne/Walters designs, the 16’, 19’ and 28’ Donzi’s, and started the 35’ “Big Bad Donzi”. We built four 28’ offshore race boats, and one 19’ Hornet for the 1964 Miami-Key West offshore race, working 12 to 16 hours a day. The four 28’s we all different. The one that Aronow drove had a pair of Turbocharged 409ci Daytona Marine Chevy’s, side by side with vee drives. The other Daytona powered 28 had the same engines installed “in tandem”. One was in front, one in the back on centerline with a common gearbox between them, driving a single propeller. Although that boat was better balanced, faster and easier to throttle when airborne, it never won a race for us. We broke the driveline on the rare times that we didn’t blow an engine. I think Sam Sarra drove it that year, but I don’t remember. Hell, I don’t remember how many drinks I had last night. A third 28’ was the “Donzi Diesel”, with a single 550HP Detroit Diesel, driven to Key West by all time great, Walt Walters. The fourth 28’ was a “side by side” twin vee drive boat with twin 400 HP 427 Fords, called “Donzi Doozy” and driven by Jim Wynne. The race was won by Jack Manson, for the second time in a row in his big wooden Diesel “Big Wooden Diesel”. Wynne was second, winning the first-ever Union of International Motorboating World Championship (without winning a single race overall). This did not go unnoticed by Aronow. Last, but not least (that is still being argued) was the author in the 19’ Donzi Hornet prototype with a single 427, 400HP Ford Interceptor vee drive in 9th and last place. It was very rough (Oh, Lord! Thy sea is so great, and my boat ain’t so great!). We dove the little boat a dozen times. To this day, I can’t turn my head far enough to properly back a boat trailer. My co-pilot never raced again.

A deep thinker would have realized that, in 1964, there were only a dozen or so drivers who had ever won an offshore powerboat race. This was the whip that drove us on (and forced us to drink beer). Fast forward a couple of months. Aronow sold all the raceboats but one, the 28’ tandem, Donzi Baby. Bill Wishnick, who had raced the 23’ Formula, “Amalie Oiler” on the Formula racing team, bought the “Donzi Doozy” and renamed it “Broad Jumper”. He took me as crew, and we had great success for a couple of years with the “Bargain Basement” boat, $20,000, ready to race. We won the ’65 Sam Griffith Memorial, ‘65 Hennessy Long Beach, ‘66 Gateway from West Palm Beach, ’66 Around Long Island, holding the speed records in all those races at the same time. We also won the “George Light Trophy”, emblematic of the National High Points Championship, before the merger with APBA. I was busy at Donzi Marine. We were selling boats like hotcakes, racing, prototyping and such. Over in the corner of the yard, The “Donzi Baby” sat, forlornly, unloved. From time to time, when it was very quiet, on a full moon night, you could hear her whisper “Brownie, I could win the Miami-Nassau for you…” I had driven the “Baby” in the 1965 Gateway Marathon, from West Palm Beach to Lucaya, in the Bahamas, and back. Aronow thought that my ‘light touch’ on the throttle might keep the driveline together. Naah, we blew the coupler between the engines again. The engines in that boat were level, and both engines drove the upper gear in the vee drive. All 1100 HP was on the gear face. I called the engineer, Sam Sarra, to discuss that fact. Sam was very patient and understanding. “F**k off, kid! Everybody’s a goddam engineer”.

John Holman, of Holman Moody Ford Racing called and said that he had a new set of Nascar ‘medium riser’ 427’s with 58mm Weber carburetors that I could race, fully supported. That did it. I had the “Baby” cleaned up and cleaned out. I called Andy Casale in California and had a special vee drive made with the propeller shaft extended out the front at 12 degrees, just like the output shaft. Only the rear input shaft was level. Now, the gears would only have to handle half the total horsepower. I proudly showed my handy work to my peers, and they hooted me out of the boatyard. “Can’t possibly work!” “You are an A**hole!” Actually, they had been saying that before….. I tested the boat, and it performed flawlessly.

October 13th, 1967, 7:00 AM. The starting line for the Miami-Nassau race. I had my mechanic, Mark “Big Dirty” Raymond, and Donzi plant Manager, Roy Farmer as crew. 50 boats in the race, about 30 in Open Class with us. How in the hell do you beat this bunch? The entire Mercury Racing Team, Dick Bertram, Peter Rittmaster, Don Aronow, Bobby Rautbord, Dick Genth, Merrick Lewis, Jake Trotter and some Limeys and left coasters. No time to think, there is the flare. We’re off! We were mildly competitive, speed wise. Don Aronow, Odell Lewis, John Bakos and a couple of others were easing away from us. We had nothing to adjust. No drive trim, no trim tabs. Nothing to do but hold it wide open and keep it on course.

An amazing event was occurring. All of the boats that were ahead of us had Mercruiser stern drives (instruments of the devil). Just before the race, they got a new batch of propellers that were a little faster than the ones that they had installed the day before. Everyone changed to the new props. They had faulty metals in them. One by one, they dropped back, until only Dick Bertram was ahead of us. We stayed like that until we were halfway to Nassau, when Bertram slowed, and Peter Rittmaster crept past in his 32’ Bertram with a pair of factory Hemi Chryslers. Just before Mama Rhoda rock in the Berry Islands, Rittmaster slowed to fix something, and came up again just in time to deflower his running gear on Mama Rhoda reef. We were all alone, in front. We kept it “in the corner” all the way to Nassau Harbour and the finish line. We had barely broken Odell Lewis’s speed record. The Playboy Magazine “Playmate of the Year” was the prize for 1st place. I took her for a spin in the “Baby”, came back to the dock, and there were still no other finishers. A half hour later, my hero, Odell Lewis came in, followed by my friend, Carl Moesly in an outboard powered “Sea Craft” boat. I was having fun on the dock with all the fans, when Mr. Kiekhaefer, who owned all the Mercury boats strode down the dock with his hand extended “Odell, nice work. You were really moving”. Kiekhaefer had taken off late to watch the race, and did not realize that the only Holman Moody in the race had won. Odell, “I am sorry, Sir. I did the best I could”. “What do you mean?” “Brownie beat me a half an hour”. “Get these goddamn boats off of this island!” And away they went.

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The success stories continue to flood in from new and old customers as Marine Design Corporation doubles down on its reputation for being able to achieve high performance and unparalleled reliability where previously thought not possible.

Both the DriveGuardian and the DriveSync offered by MDC are experiencing a substantial increase in demand as more and more race teams and individual boaters hear of the user verifiable improvements that come with the installation of one or more of MDC’s industry changing products. You can’t argue with the facts! Want better performance? Start with MDC.

The improvements seen by the DriveGuardian are clear. Lilly Sport Boats has been running the DriveGuardian all season long and according to Brit Lilly, they have seen a dramatic improvement in the condition of his drives.

Another testament to the success of MDC is that Smith Brothers and Saris Racing which have been racing with the DriveGuardian for some time now continue to win their classes event after event with minimal wear and damage to the drives as well as other connected components. If a winning race team swears by it, odds are it’s something you need to fully explore! Don’t shy away because you may think this is simply for those that race. The products that MDC offers will undoubtedly benefit you no matter what you do with your boat.

Furthermore, MDC’s DriveGuardian is so well built that even applications not using it for its specific purpose still benefit the boater in more ways than one. At LOTO this year Mike gave Texas Outlaw Challenge contestant Tyler Crocket a call to see how he was connecting his drive to the boats insane 2,200 HP blown alcohol engine. After learning that he was only using a stock rubber Bravo coupler that resulted in his needing to replace it after every single race, Mike built him a standard DriveGuardian and set the breakaway torque to 2,000 ft-lbs. While the specific function of the DriveGuardian had no purpose in this application, the sheer sturdiness and reliability of the piece allowed Tyler to make more than just a few runs without having to make any repairs or modifications.

To finish it off, Andrei Allen of Allen Landscaping won a Top Gun award in his class while operating with the DriveGuardian. And the well known Team GONE AGAIN guys are using the DriveSync for both their shootouts and offshore races now!

There is nothing that speaks volumes like firsthand accounts from racers and boaters using this revolutionary performance product. So take it from the best of the best, and see what Marine Design Corporation can do for you!

With boat builders flocking by the dozens to the International Boat Builders Exposition (IBEX) in Tampa Bay, Florida for the latest industry innovations, the Innotech Products booth was packed with numerous boat builders exploring the ever endless options that the St. Louis firm offers.

Innotech has become an industry leading firm that provides custom carbon fiber panels to the performance marine industry. But today the rest of the boating world is finding endless options for the products in both recreational boats and yachts as well.

President Steve Dunning said that the show has had amazing results opening their brand and offerings to an even wider spectrum of boaters. Innotech is unveiling some proprietary new technology allowing them to seamlessly flush mount integrated lighting into their panels, as well as entirely new surface treatments such as wood grains and beyond. You can visit Innotech products at www.innotechproducts.com.

Earlier this week a Carnival cruise ship rescued two women from the chartered $20 million Masteka 2 after is started sinking off the coast of Port Macqaurie.

The ship first received the distress call as yacht crew members discovered that the yacht had lost steering and was taking on water.

The cruise ship was able to quickly divert and deploy one of it’s fast launch boats in order to transport two females back to the liner where they would stay aboard until it docked.

The remaining 4 crew members elected to stay aboard the yacht in order to try and find the problem.  They were able to do so with the help of airdropped pumps and the boat is now awaiting the arrival of a tugboat which will tow it back to the harbor.

The superyacht is one of the nicest yachts available for charter in the area and commanded a minimum starting hourly charter rate of $3,000/hr.

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