Word: inboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drenched the crews, and visibility was down to zero as fierce squalls kicked up 5-ft. swells. Florida's John Heinrich was only 30 miles out of Freeport when waves ripped the deck off his 26-ft. Alim outboard. Between Chub Cay and Nassau, the 24-ft. Nova inboard of Miamian Allan Brown ran out of gas, then wallowed helplessly in the wash for more than four hours while rescue planes searched...
...weather took its toll of men as well as machinery. Drivers at least had steering wheels to hold on to, but mechanics and navigators were flung around the cockpits like rag dolls as their boats stuttered across the stony seas. Aboard Thunderbird V, a 31-ft. inboard, Novice Navigator Rocky Marciano, now 43, wished openly that he had stayed on dry land. "I'd rather fight Joe Louis and Jersey Joe Walcott at the same time," the ex-heavyweight champ told Driver Dick Genth...
...Mona Lou III, a 32-ft. Maritime inboard powered by two 475-h.p. Mercury engines, Odell Lewis was worried not so much about winning as merely staying afloat. A draining, plug had popped out of Mona Lou's hull; when Lewis pulled into Nassau to refuel, he had to leap overboard and plug the hole with rags to keep the boat from sinking. Finally, after 10 hr. 54 min. of whomping on the water, during which he averaged 54 m.p.h., Lewis crossed the finish line to win the $10,000 first prize by a margin of only four seconds...
...seconds before, Miller was able to look out at the right wing. The end of the wing was engulfed in white fire that curled upward in a ghastly comber, spitting fragments of molten metal into the air. What Miller could not see, because his view was blocked by the inboard engine, was even more chilling. No. 4 engine had dropped off, ripping a hole in the wing skin and puncturing the wing tip tank, igniting its 70 gal. of kerosene. One-third of its 83-ft. right wing was gone. Aerodynamically, Flight 843 should already have crashed...
...Tylercraft's first jet-powered 24-ft. auxiliary sloop ($4,885). The jet engine takes less room and costs half as much as a propeller inboard, uses regular gasoline...