It was rumored that the name Cigarette boat came from being used to smuggle cigarettes into the country.

Cigarette boat origin. Also do a google search. No one knew how the Cigarette Owners Rendezvous would do when. Another theory regarding the origin of the Cigarette boat term is that it may have originated in the 1920s.

The first boat made like that was sponcered by a cigaret company. He sold his construction company and moved to Miami. This is a far cry both from the cigarette boats predecessors.

Don Aronow who founded Cigarette Racing Team started out life as a homebuilder in New Jersey. The original rum-runner boats used during Prohibition to out-run larger vessels and the 1960s-era go-fast boats designed for. He took up a new hobby racing fast boats.

Their second boat would commemorate the 10-year anniversary of the partnership. A small fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds. We collected some of the best.

Builder of Chief Powerboats and founder of Apache Performance Boats Phil Lipschutz. The first cigarette boat was made by David Aronow back in 1969 under the code name Cary due to officially be allowed to build boats at the time due to his non-compete clause at the time. Power is delivered by twin 15501350QC4v Mercury.

Aronow himself would go on to win many races. Ken Lyding is one of those fortunate individuals to not. Then they started making more of them and they were then used not only for racing but smugling cuban cigars and cigarets.