The man to be reckoned with at the 1969 event was the charismatic American racer Don Aronow.

Don aronow speedboat racer. Go-fast design--which raised the bar for the maximum performance of speedboats--was the brainchild of professional racer Donald Aronow. This is a special section devoted to Don Aronow and his influence on the sport of offshore racing. Champion of offshore racing.

His boats went on to win a whopping 350 offshore races and Aronow himself was a two-time world champion and three-time US. Already world champion in his notorious Cigarette Aronow and Cigarette lived up to the billing covering the course in an impressive 312 hours. Aronow who would have been 60 on March 1 was a New York native and grew up racing speed skiffs on the New Jersey shore.

The film is directed by Jodi Scurfield not John Luessenhop as previously reported although Luessenhop is one of the writers along with David Aaron Cohen. Profile of Don Aronow murder on TV show Expose hosted by Tom Brokaw. Aronow 59 at the time of his murder in 1987 was a handsome jet-setting Miami speedboat racer and designer of the sleek racing craft known as the cigarette boat.

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See more ideas about offshore boats power boats boat. The thriller fictionalizes the life of speedboat racer and entrepreneur Don Aronow who allegedly had connections to the mob. Feb 13 2021 - Don Arronow and His Toys.

As is customary in a world dominated by speed money and worldwide travel Aronow had friends ranging from mobster Meyer Lansky to former president George H. It would also be the last street Aronow saw alive. A round trip in less than half the time of the inaugural one-way race.