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05-28-2014 09:49 AM
Last edited by Serious News; 05-29-2014 at 09:26 AM.
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05-28-2014 10:25 AMThey are saying they found the boat?
http://cruisingicw.wordpress.com/day...p-carousel-197Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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05-30-2014 08:45 AM
Two years later, Johnson, Sherbert and Hargrave teamed up on a slightly shorter open fisherman based on the lines of the Daytona 45 and put four turbocharged Daytona gasoline engines in her for 50 knot-plus speeds. Johnson christened her TX-41 and with her took home the Miami-New York speed trophy a few months later. TX-41's record stood for an amazing 10 years while Sherbert continued to build twin-engine versions of the design.
Entire Article http://www.yachtingmagazine.com/arti...ge-Battlewagon
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Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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06-02-2014 06:07 PM
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, wow!
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06-03-2014 08:49 AM
Some History
"Motorboating Magazine", June 1963...
"Anyone looking for a new trophy? Motorboating Magazine has placed the Charles F. Chapman Trophy into competition. It will be awarded to any motorboat owner who runs his boat from Miami to New York faster than Sam Griffith did with his Bertram rig last year. Those who try, but fail to improve on Griffith's mark, will get certificates.
Chapman is the boatman who navigated for Gar Wood on the record-breaking 1921 Miami-New York trip. No one did it faster until Griffith came along 41 years later."
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06-03-2014 09:11 AM
Record Holders;
1921 Gar Wood / 47hr 15m /
1962 Sam Griffith / / 31 Bertram
1964 Charles Johnson / 31h 32m /41 TX-41
1974 August Dr. Bob Magoon / 22hr 41min 15sec / 40 Foot Cigarette
1985 George Morales / 19hr 33min 27sec / 48 Catamaran
1988 Tom Gentry / 19hours 17minutes 27sec / 110 Foot Gentry Eagle
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06-04-2014 08:11 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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06-05-2014 03:30 AM
This was a fun read, and widens my appreciation for the guts and determination of the early pioneers of offshore competition. Notice you didn't read virtually anything about "rules"
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06-05-2014 11:19 PMIt is amazing what they attempted and accomplished.
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