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    Don Aronow — 1 March 1927 to 3 February 1987: The ‘King Of Thunderboat Row’

    Jan 13, 2021 3 minutes

    After making a fortune from property development in New Jersey, Donald Joel Aronow ‘retired’ at age 34 to Miami Beach where he acquired a powerful fishing cruiser, the 40-foot Tainted Lady. He was drawn into the growing sport of offshore powerboat racing for the 1962 160-nautical-mile Miami-Nassau event across the often rough waters of the Gulfstream. Aronow commissioned Howard Abbey to build him a 28-foot boat to compete. Powered by

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