On Mar 29, 12:09*pm, wrote:
On Mar 29, 12:06*pm, HK wrote:



Vic Smith wrote:
While surfing outboard history, I came across this.

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/...ft-boat-crosed

"The Atlantic Crossing that you speak of was done by Jim Wynne, Ole
Botved of Botved-Coronet Outboard Motors, and one other pilot."

I assume your dad was the "other pilot."
Here's the funny thing.
When I first went into this link and clicked on
the hyperlink (the word "clip") in this:
"Here is a news clip from July 24, 1958"
I saw the newsreel. *Most of it was about Egypt and something about
Krushchev.
But the end showed the boat and a nice shot of the 3 guys.
Some narration about the trip.
When I went into the link again, it wanted $5 bucks to see the clip.
You might want to pay if you can't see it free as I did, no doubt
because of a site glitch. *It's a nice boating clip, and real nice
shot of the 3 crew mugging in close-up at the end.
Ever hear of the book "Iron Fist"?
It's a bio of Carl Kiekhaefer, founder of Mercury Marine.
Wouldn't mind reading that.
There's some interesting stuff out there about Jim Wynne and
Kiekhaefer and the invention of the stern drive.
Should interest boaters with a "historical" interest.

--Vic

Wow!

The trip was done more than once, by the way. The trip in the clip was
not the one my dad was on. He came across later in the year in a
slightly different boat. Some of the facts in the description
accompanying the news clip are a bit off, too. Matters not.

My father was the New England distributor for Coronet Boats for some
years. In those days, they were fiberglass sheathed marine ply boats,
nicely finished, too. Our "demo" was blue with an off-white top.

The Coronets were very tough boats. A customer of my father's hit a red
nun in New Haven harbor once and sunk the damned thing. It was made of
steel. The boat had a slight splinter on the bow.- Hide quoted text -

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Yeah.....sure.....
Please post the particulars of the fireboat welcome he received.

Get lost..." Rainbow Warrior"...lol. What a jealous turd of a human
you are.