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Next to winning the 130-mile Albany-to-New York marathon, the most cherished dream of every U. S. outboard motorboat driver is to have U. S. 1 or U. S. 2 painted on his boat. The number U. S. 1 is awarded annually to the amateur outboarder who, during the season, has amassed the largest total of points in regattas sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association. U. S. 2 goes to the highest-scoring professional...
Although Fred Jacoby is a professional motorboat racer (61% of U. S. outboard racers are professional), he earns his livelihood as a scenic artist, painting backdrops for Broadway shows. A veteran of twelve years of riding flying shingles, he knows better than to depend on his racing earnings. In 1935, when he won the Albany marathon (worth $250) and spreadeagled the field in almost every other regatta, he wound up with the coveted...
...Railton, who also designed Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird, first car ever to travel 300 m.p.h. and holder of the world's record before Captain Eyston's Thunderbolt. Last week Sir Malcolm broke his own world's record for speed on water by driving his motorboat Bluebird 130 m.p.h. on Lake Hallwil, Switzerland...
...Alagi, 12-litre hydroplane owned and driven by Italian Count Theo Rossi (vermouth) : the Gold Cup, No. 1 U. S. motorboat trophy; averaging 64 m.p.h. over a 90-mile course (three ten-lap heats); on the Detroit River, off Detroit...
...saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time on the part of three young Cuban revolutionaries, who want him to save their skins...