My dad and his brother (Doc Jones) owned a Mercury distributorship in Seattle during the early 50's. They went to Phoenix in 1955 and became Evinrude distributors because of policy changes at Mercury. Later. they hooked up their with friend (Hugh Entrop) from Seattle who worked for Boeing and who designed and built the boat which set the outboard world record with essentially a stock Starflite V4. Hugh raced F Hydros in a custom cabover he built and won every race he was in. Later they broke the record several times with modified Evinrudes. Dad always said that Mercury couldn't break the record cause they didn't have the boat. Remember Pep Hubble being involved in all this too.