Very interesting. A little bit disconnected at times, but a very good comment on the races. Like all your posts
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Very interesting. A little bit disconnected at times, but a very good comment on the races. Like all your posts
Thanks
I found some more pictures of Seebold in Milan and in Paris in the river Seine and Velden
Velden 6Hrs Paris and a wet Bill Seebold plus with Mercury team with Angelo boats
Got any more? These are great!
Fred doesn't have his straw Merc hat
Looking for more pictures I found this cut out article from Gazzetta dello Sport dated Thursday 10 October 1974 about the sad loss of Cesare Scotti at the 6Hrs Paris
The second picture is Renato in Boretto po Italy if I remember well
Carlo Rasini, the other picture not sure where it was taken
Auronzo 1976
what is that 3 cyl engine with the bendix looking injection?
Fred Hauenstein's 3 cylinder prototype Merc that Michael Werner drove in Europe. It was run a couple times in the US, but only 2 or 3 were made. It was a loop charged motor, maybe 49ci. It never went beyond this testing. Victim of one of the downturns in the economic cycle.
I can only guess where my father Minolta was focusing on.. Beautiful combination. Again if I remember well this was Boretto po Italy
This map shows the approximate locations of the boat racing rival shops, of cousins Renato Molinari and Cesare Scotti.
Lake Como one of the picturesque areas of northern Italy, where wooden tunnel boats had some of its earliest evolution.Attachment 71545
Very cool stuff... lots of history here.
The single powered Mercury outboard impressed the competitors and media. After this 1966 race, eventually begun Mercury Marine Racing interest to partner with Renato Molinari. A winning partnership of Molinari hulls and Mercury outboards, both evolving. One in aerodynamic design, the other in prop-shaft power increase.
Attachment 71546
Overhead view of Roy Ridgell driving the Molinari hull boat# 888. Finishing 6th overall in the Miami to West Palm Beach race 1966, and back to Miami the following day.
After the impressive finish by the single outboard, Mr K (Kiekhaefer, Mercury's President & Founder) told Roy not to trailer the boat at the Miami race finish dock. So Roy drove the boat to a local marina and docked there. Carl Kiekhaefer saw an evolution transpiring, and he did not want the Miami competitors and media, to get an unobtrusive view, of tunnel boat's future.
Attachment 71547
Angelo and Renato
Page 3 of this thread, 2nd post, 4th picture shows a small chase boat. I believe it is also a Molinari hull based on this boat for sale in Augusta, Georgia (Pictured)
https://augusta.craigslist.org/boa/d...965790883.html
Anyone familiar with the Molinari pleasure boats know if this is a fast hull, or just a necessary boat for testing the real race boats?
In earlier posts Cees vander Velden talks about becoming a race boat builder, and a rival to Molinari hulls.
Well before Cees built race boats, Dieter Schulze built boats, and some have mention that he and Angelo Molinari (Renato's father) were the early innovators of tunnel boats powered by outboards.
Therefore I wanted to post photos of Dieter (these are pictures of him in America at a race).
And also included the 1968 Paris race results, with Schulze hulls finishing 2nd & 3rd to Renato Molinari.
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In an earlier post Cees vander Veldon talks about entering the race boat building business, and becoming a rival builder to the Molinari hull. Well before Cees was a rival, Deiter Schulze was a 1960's rival to the Molinari hull.
Here are some photos of Deiter in America at a race. And also the 1968 Paris results, when Schulze cats finished 2nd & 3rd to Renato Molinari.
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Here are some Molinari tunnel race boats, in design time-frame sequence.
Boat 888 the 1965 - 1966 look.
Boat 46 the 1967 - 1968 look.
Boat 12 the late 1960's design.
Picklefork 1972 - 1973 design.
Renato Molinari on one of his first pickleforks, leaves the Como shop heading out on Como Lake to test.
Boat 888 the first Molinari hull to race in the USA. Piloted by Mercury factory team driver Roy Ridgell.
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Old is Gold ....golden era of shipping and boring for a life jacket for adults....the pictures reflect the past history....
Don Aronows son (Michael) we have this ...
Lenny, when my dad came back from Europe in 63-64 he spoke about these great Molinari cats that he had seen and how great they looked, ran and handled. Fast forward to the summer of 67 when we were racing in Europe. During that time, Don once again had the opportunity to watch the Molinari cats in action and this time he ordered two to be delivered to him in North Miami Beach, either at Magnum or to one of his little work/test shops. He had spent the day with Francesco and/or Vincenzo and they had introduced him to Angelo Molinari.
To quote from the Fort Lauderdale News, January 26, 1968 by Johnny Wilson, Outdoor News Editor who had interviewed Dad - "Take one of the finest Italian-designed and made outboard racing runabouts, revise it a bit and put it through the American production gamut and what do you have? You have the new Maltese Magnum 16, a fiberglass blending of the best qualities of the world's finest racing catamarans- the original race-winning design by Molinari of Italy with improvements and solid fiberglass construction by Magnum of Miami, as proven by Don Aronow, the current world champ in offshore powerboat racing.
Aronow's newest creation (which was just released at the recent Miami Boat Show) will have it first Broward showing today, tomorrow and Sunday at Everglades Marina, where selective demonstrations will be given all three days by factory representatives.
The first American showing of this three year old Italian design was old number 888 which Roy Ridgell of the Kiekhaefer Mercury team drove to a smahing sixth overall with a single engine in the last Miami-Palm Beach version of the Gold Coast Marathon.
But Aronow saw the boats in action while he was touring Europe last summer on his way to the world driving title, and bought a couple for study. The Molinari had won the rugged 6 hour Marathon of Paris two straight years, and even Aronow was impressed. He and the Magnum development team analyzed them from stem to stern and after months of testing, revising and re-designing the twin-keel Maltese magnum 16 went into production.
Of one piece laminated high impact fiberglass, the hull has an aerogynamically designed tunnel from bow to transom and the typical "droop snoot" silhouette configuration of the top European racing rigs.
Aronow says 'She's an incomparable ski boat, a thrilling personal boat and a born to win racing boat - a finer boat than any of the champions from which she was created' ".
This article was titled MAGUNM 16: SUCCESSFUL BY-PRODUCT OF ITALIAN HULL and was printed below two black and white pictures of the Missile, one in our driveway on a trailer and one running with its Merc 125 (the 1250) outboard.
Lenny, the picture you have posted looks exactly like the Magnum Missile 16'.
A year or two later, Glastron's Bob Hammond put Art Carlson and Mr. Molinari together and they began building the Glastron-Carlson-Molinari line of small outboard cats. All three men - true powerboating legends.
To my eye, the Magnum was the winner. It was built with all of those little extras that always made Dad's boats special. It was carpeted and had those 4 comfortable back to back bucket seats and so on. Jim was not involved with Magnum at that time.
Dad had this idea of using the Missile to get from our home in Coral Gables to Magnum on 188th Street in order to avoid the daily traffic. He tried it a few times but decided a comfortable car trumped the pounding and the wetness.
I have these great shots of the Missile including my favorite with Don and Vincenzo running in the bay behind our home when Vincenzo visited.
Dad sold Magnum to Apeco (the American Photocopy Equipment Company) owned by friends Bobby and Clayton Rautbord with Clayton in charge shortly thereafter. The Missile never really got off the ground after the sale. (Socialite Sugar Rautbord was Clayton's wife)
Hope this has helped answer a lot of Missile questions.
A quote from Allan Brown (Brownie)
Mike, I hope you don't mind my piling my recollections on top of yours. Two small points: The builder of the original wooden missiles, 16' and 19' was Dieter Schulze. The missile took up too much room in the small glass shot to create enough bucks to make it worthwhile.
A reply from Michael Aronow
No problem AB, I welcome your input and appreciate the help, - after all, you were there on the street all week while I was in school. As to your post:
You are right on. Dieter did indeed build the wooden 16' and 19' and true enough, there was not enough room in the "shop" to make producing the Missiles worthwhile when the money was in the larger Magnums.
One more interesting little footnote: The Missile molds ended up in the vacant field next to plant 1 at Cigarette, along with that large group of discarded molds and other mold parts, etc. and with all the change of ownerships going on over the years, I do not believe that any of new owners were ever aware of it.
https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/g...82/#post-19188
Hello all,
I wonder if anyone here knows the current whereabouts of the beautiful " Martini Bianco " offshore powerboat seen in 1987, driven by Molinari and Cesare Fiorio on the world championship. The hull was a Falcon made by Molinari and the engines were 4 full Gr.C spec Lancia LC2 units made in abarth.
Whatever happened to this boat after '87 until this day ?Attachment 78389
Renato in his Unlimited cat powered by twin F1-V8 engines 1983.
Clear Lake, Texas.
Roger Hinsdale shared a memory.
Timeless.......just a couple of Molinari / CCC/RS powered tunnel hulls
Thanks RH
.."move on up to an Evinrude"...with Renato Molinari..the F1 Champ 1983.