He built speedboats for the Shah of Iran Charles Keating Robert Vesco Malcolm Forbes.

Don aronow formula. Over the next few years builders and creators of the newest sport of high-performance boating set up shop on NE. This registry is dedicated to preserving the heritage of Don Aronows famous Formula 233. On the afternoon of February 3 1987 Don Aronow was in his office on Thunderboat Row when a tall stranger walked in and identified himself as Jerry Jacoby.

Don Aronow Photo- Formula Boats In 1962 with the intention of building better and faster race boats Aronow created Formula Boats named after the fastest car racing series F1 and set up production on a channel off Biscayne Bay connected to the intracoastal waterway on what would later become famously or infamously known as Thunderboat Row or Speedboat Alley at NE. I pulled the original Mercruiser 165 to rebuild in 2013 and never put it back together due to having a new boat given to me. The King of Thunderboat Row 1994 by Michael Aronow.

Michael Aronow March 1 2007. Jacoby claimed to work for a very rich man who wanted Aronow to build him a 60 foot boat. Formula was the first of Aronows boat companies.

His boats went on to win a whopping 350 offshore races and Aronow himself was a two-time world champion and three-time US. Don wanted more speed and sent a 233 hull to Lake X to have a racing 409 Mercruiser on a 2 Now that is a description sterndrive. This was my boat from 2008-2013 and used regularly.

A place to network with other 233 owners discuss technical issues get and give advice exchange knowledge and compile a database of the remaining 233s. While built by Don Aronows Formula company it was designed by renowned boat designer and naval architect Ray Hunt. More than 50 years later the DNA of the Formula 233 hull design can be found in many reputable boatbuilding yards around Australia.

Throughout the course of his illustrious career he built boats for the likes of George H. The next morning the Beatles met Don Aronow to check out his 23-foot speedboat that he had named after a legendary style of smuggling craft. It has a single 409 Chevy going into a Mercury Marine outdrive.