Dry Martini!!!! AWESOME!!!
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Originally Posted by Black Tornado
Hi Joern,
I don't absolutely doubt this' that Powers says. He was there!
On the fact that also the Aeromarine III was "heavy" I am instead more' doubtful because' Magoon to that time was the official driver of Kiekhaefer like Bonomi and the his 36' Aeromarines were around the best.
I believe that Magoon switched from the Aeromarine I the to the proper III for this.
Rather nobody knows about the existence of an Aeromarine II?
I don't absolutely doubt this' that Powers says. He was there!
On the fact that also the Aeromarine III was "heavy" I am instead more' doubtful because' Magoon to that time was the official driver of Kiekhaefer like Bonomi and the his 36' Aeromarines were around the best.
I believe that Magoon switched from the Aeromarine I the to the proper III for this.
Rather nobody knows about the existence of an Aeromarine II?
You misunderstood this one.We bought the Aero 3 in favour of the Dry Martini because Aero 3 was supposely lighter and faster. And yes I also think Magoon picked the best boat and rigging, serving as a test boat for Kiekhaefer for the first fuel injection engines as Richie describes above.
I asked the same question to Richie regarding Aeromarine 2, he claims it never existed.
Reg Joern
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Originally Posted by 36widebody
Marco,
You misunderstood this one.We bought the Aero 3 in favour of the Dry Martini because Aero 3 was supposely lighter and faster. And yes I also think Magoon picked the best boat and rigging, serving as a test boat for Kiekhaefer for the first fuel injection engines as Richie describes above.
I asked the same question to Richie regarding Aeromarine 2, he claims it never existed.
Reg Joern
You misunderstood this one.We bought the Aero 3 in favour of the Dry Martini because Aero 3 was supposely lighter and faster. And yes I also think Magoon picked the best boat and rigging, serving as a test boat for Kiekhaefer for the first fuel injection engines as Richie describes above.
I asked the same question to Richie regarding Aeromarine 2, he claims it never existed.
Reg Joern
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Then that english Dry Martini was the first 36' of Bonomi. Former Aeromarine IX in 1972.
But the Yellowdrama II/Crown of Crucis/Colt Sapporo was the 36' lighter of 1973.
Who was the actual Dry Martini with a cabin and a pleasure deck solding in England now?
And where is the former Yellowdrama II/Crown of.......?
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Guys, I was in the Dry Martini, the last time it has ever raced. And probably the only time it has had the original stack fuel injector setup. I think it was the 2004 race in Jersey. It was raced before that in 2003 but not with the original injector setup. Kurt has not raced it since. This is a truly AWESOME boat. It flys like an eagle and lands great...there are pic's of this race and we are 7- 10' out of the water. I can not post the pic's ..but there out there. I was the navigator and feel privileged to be one of the last people to have been in this boat in a real offshore race, as I don't think Kurt will really run this boat in a race anymore. The original drives were taken off the boat for this race as there is no way to get replacemant parts for them...this turned out to be a problem as to gettting the boat on plain...this was not tested before the race.
I could write a whole "blog" about the race in this boat...but I'm sure everybody has a story to tell about every race..lol
I could write a whole "blog" about the race in this boat...but I'm sure everybody has a story to tell about every race..lol
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Yeah, thats the pic. Great shot of the boat. The original Kiekhaefer drives were taken off the boat (which are blue by the way) and if i recall #3's were put on. We had trouble getting out of the hole with those..but once we were up..she flew.
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Update of the KAM engine rebuild.
http://www.kurtsmarine.com/restoration.html
I was at Kurt's today and they are hard at work rebuilding these engines. I wasn't expecting to see this much progress on the engines. They have quite a bit done already and the blocks will be getting machined shortly.
Check their site regularly as I will be updating the page frequently as well as a projects page in the works to give you an insight into some of the projects going on.
One of those projects being a 27' Formula pleasure boat that Kurt is restoring right now.
http://www.kurtsmarine.com/restoration.html
I was at Kurt's today and they are hard at work rebuilding these engines. I wasn't expecting to see this much progress on the engines. They have quite a bit done already and the blocks will be getting machined shortly.
Check their site regularly as I will be updating the page frequently as well as a projects page in the works to give you an insight into some of the projects going on.
One of those projects being a 27' Formula pleasure boat that Kurt is restoring right now.
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WOW.........That all i can say about all this history.
Mike
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Did you ever return them?
Jeff