Official World Speed Records
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Brownie
The APBA UIM official speed record for Class 1 was 90.455 for years and years. Bob Nordskog in the 'Little Cigarette'. Nobody came close until Cougar in the 80's.
A little precisation; in 'The Little Cigarette' were Hal Sahlman and Harold Smith to set the world record of speed in the 1974 at 87.2mph.
The boat was one of the former 32' Cigarette that Balestrieri modified in 1971 cutting it to 31' with a deck in playwood.
Nordskog set his two records in 1975 and 1976 with his Cigarette 35' Powerboat Magazine Special at 88.7mph and 90.6mph.
The first official record breaking the 100mph barrier was set in 1980 by a British lady - Countess of Arran - at Windermere the famous lake of the speed records driving her Skean Dhu a 26'.5 Wright Marine powered with a couple of Mercury 225hp outboards!
At 102.5mph.
Skean Dhu wasn't a traditional cat but it was a trimaran boat.