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...last night doing the town till the wee hours, winding up at a place called Chez Vito, where Georgie, accompanied by five violinists, sang Language of Love in her ear. Meanwhile, down in Nassau the language was "Do Not Disturb" as Luci and Pat hid out in a Lyford Cay villa for four days before emerging for tea with the Governor of the Bahamas...
...time the leaders reached Cat Cay, just 44½ miles from Miami, it was a two-boat race. Don Aronow, whose boatyard had already turned out the successful Formula racers, had come up with a new boat: Donzi 007, a fiberglass 28-footer, with a deep-V hull like the Bertram and powered by two 450-h.p. Ford engines. His competition was Merrick Lewis, whose Holocaust (730 horses packed into a 23-ft. frame) was -that's right-an Aronow-designed Formula. With 007 throttled up to 5,800 r.p.m., Aronow was hitting a fantastic 66 knots...
Cracks & Leaks. By the time the field reached Cat Cay, 441 miles from Miami, eleven boats were already out of the race. Ragin' Cajun gave up with clutch trouble. Aboard Allied GX, a geyser of steam and water suddenly shot up from the ruptured bilges. The crew watched sadly from a life raft as the $140,000 boat sank in 600 fathoms...
...developed a 4-ft.-long crack in the cabin; the radio was smashed, and a reinforcing stringer had broken loose from the hull. In Lucky Moppie, every time Bertram tried to switch to his main fuel tank, his engines quit. Then, maneuvering at the check-in station on Cat Cay, Lucky Moppie slammed into another boat, knocking it into a sea wall and out of contention. Miraculously, Lucky Moppie kept going...
...Three. On the relatively calm 161-mile stretch from Cat Cay to Sylvia Light, Max Aitken's Vivacity clung to a narrow lead, pursued by two Formula 233s. Bertram's Lucky Moppie was now running fourth, and Abbott's Rum Runner was fifth. Then one of the Formulas ran out of gas. Cracking along at 3,500 r.p.m. and 50 knots, Bertram overtook the other-and shot into first place when Aitken veered off course. With just three miles to go on the final leg from Hog Cay to Nassau, Bertram seemed to have it sewed...