Mercury Through The Years...

**FUJIMO** · 01-09-2018, 12:26 PM

**FUJIMO** · 01-09-2018, 12:28 PM

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-11-2018, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

But---I started all this looking for pictures of the Six Engine Transatlantic boat!!
Shouldn't be hard to find---it was 50' by 15' and had six V-6's on the transom!!

Marty B. came through!!

**FUJIMO** · 01-12-2018, 10:46 AM

The 50 would have been the Aronow Magnum/Cary wide beam hull right Gene? The widest Cigarette was the 9' 4'' hulls, such as in the photo above with four Mercury 200 verticle reed motors with lift-off cowlings.

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-12-2018, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

The 50 would have been the Aronow Magnum/Cary wide beam hull right Gene?

That is correct. There are a lot of 'skeletons buried' in this boat. Nicky built the plug, scaling it up from the original 32' Cary/Cigarette, The plug was so big, Don used it as a shed behind his shop. I think the boat was rigged in Wisconsin. Marty and Rick Lamore tested it on Lake Michigan.

Variants/copies of this boat are still being sold today---

**JPEROG** · 01-12-2018, 02:35 PM

Anyone know what happened to the 70 Cary that was owned by DeVos? It was a beast and his pride and joy for many years.

Joe

**John Schubert** · 01-12-2018, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

That is correct. There are a lot of 'skeletons buried' in this boat. Nicky built the plug, scaling it up from the original 32' Cary/Cigarette, The plug was so big, Don used it as a shed behind his shop. I think the boat was rigged in Wisconsin. Marty and Rick Lamore tested it on Lake Michigan.

Variants/copies of this boat are still being sold today---

Gene,
when you said Nicky built the plug, do you mean Nick Chapman as I know he did some

**FUJIMO** · 01-12-2018, 03:36 PM

Nick Chapman did all of Aronow's plug work. Then Victor and Curtis Chapman, Nick's sons, did even more of it later, on 188th Street, as well as many other big name companies hull/deck/console carpentry work. They are some of the best ever...and amazingly fast as hell doing it, I might add. Victor, by himself, would finish from scratch, a large boat plug, in just one week, ready for the finishers. I saw him do this over and over. He would just walk away smiling, with pockets overflowing with cash. I know what Victor is up to these days, but always wondered how young Curt is. High energy & a nice guy.

**FUJIMO** · 01-12-2018, 03:40 PM

Gene, that CitiCorp Traveler sure looks like a 40 x 9' 6'' boat.(?) Just say'n.

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-12-2018, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by FUJIMO

Gene, that CitiCorp Traveler sure looks like a 40 x 9' 6'' boat.(?) Just say'n.

Yeah, if it was any wider they would be using 'Wide Load' signs---

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-12-2018, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by John Schubert

Gene,
when you said Nicky built the plug, do you mean Nick Chapman as I know he did some

At least one of his plugs was used as a race boat--Did you ever watch him work? An exhausting experience--

**John Schubert** · 01-12-2018, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by GENE LANHAM

At least one of his plugs was used as a race boat--Did you ever watch him work? An exhausting experience--

I only knew him from his Stock Outboard runabout racing days when a I started in the early 50’s. He & his dad had a dealership in East Moriches, Long Island & built his own runabouts. He could really drive his BU especially in marathons

**John Schubert** · 01-12-2018, 06:22 PM

Here is a picture of Nick at the 1952 Stock Otboard national championships at Oakland, CA. He is in the inside boat. His boats were always called Rowdy.

**GENE LANHAM** · 01-12-2018, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by John Schubert

I only knew him from his Stock Outboard runabout racing days when a I started in the early 50’s. He & his dad had a dealership in East Moriches, Long Island & built his own runabouts. He could really drive his BU especially in marathons

I don't know when he moved to Miami--he was a fixture at Pelican Harbor Yacht Club in the early 60's--OPC--