Powerboat racing champion and the founder of Cigarette Formula Donzi Magnum Squadron XII USA Racing and a larger-than-life figure Aronow was known as the King of Thunderboat Row a short stretch of 188 th Street in North Miami.

Don aronow donzi boats. They were cool accessible boats that could handle rough water and had good build quality. I tested his boats. See more ideas about offshore boats power boats boat.

This is a special section devoted to Don Aronow and his influence on the sport of offshore racing. 1994 Donzi Sweet 16. Aronow talked Tim Chisholm Chairman of Teleflex into giving him the 35 Donzi program including our prototype 35 race boat in return for Aronow racing and promoting Donzi Marine Hah.

His boats went on to win a whopping 350 offshore races and Aronow himself was a two-time world champion and three-time US. 1997 Donzi Sweet 16 In 1964 Don Aronow launched his first Donzi Sweet 16. Over the next few months this section will be expanded as we take a look at each of the boat companies that Don founded Formula Donzi Magnum Cigarette Squadron XII.

As the editor of Motor Boating. By 66 my dad had sold Donzi to Teleflex. These wins were in Donzi Marine boats either named Donzi 007 or Donzi 008.

Thus Don raced and won first place three times in Donzi Boats which was in the 1965 -1966 time frame. He was tan enough that one might suspect a woodpile malfunction. This documentary is about the murder in Miami in 1987 of a famous boat builder.

Formula Donzi Magnum and most notably Cigarette. Don had just moved down from Joisy and had sent his diving boat Claudia a 32 foot Pederson Viking skiff to our yard for launching. Every boat he sold was built for himself Theres about 70 people out there who think they have a boat Don built for himself.