Little Black Duck history after the fire
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Pete B
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I believe the winningest offshore boat of all time. The boat won 27 of the 40 races it entered. But after Peter Aitkin sold it to Nick Cutro, it caught fire and sank 20 miles from the end of the 1987 Port Huron Michigan race. Peter won World titles in the boat in 1983 and 1984. He also won the US Championships in 1982 and 1983. Cutro won the 1986 World Championship and the 1987 US Championship in the boat. Searace
After the fire @ the Port Huron race our owner of the Magic race team was Bob Kehrig. Bob was friends with Nick & the one who supplied the crains for this race. Bob K & our race team stood by making sure Nicks damage cat was pulled out of the water carefully. This where one of my biggest mistakes took place I introduced Nick to Jim Klem. [Klems Gems,, Aero, Lancer, Awesome] Klem told Nick he would rebuild this cat for him if he could make a new deck cat mold off it. Klem screwed Nick & his boat & it took Nick forever to get it back from Klem. Nick would eventually fix the deck himself paint it yellow & race again with the Pennzoil name. After that I dissolve a 15 year friendship with Klem as I knew he would stop at nothing & Lie, lie, lie. All the bad finally caught up with Klem a few years ago & did us & the boat building world a favor . More can be seen here.
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