Magnum Marine Missile

1968 Magnum Missile tunnel hull, Mercury 2.4 Bridge Port 265HP, and trailer.

This Magnum Marine is an extremely rare boat and is hard to find; only a handful of them made. It is not for an inexperienced boater and is one of the fastest boats ever to be designed. Entirely built for speed!!

It is most definitely overpowered but was impeccably rigged. For instance, the motor was installed with a mechanical trim gauge w/a push-pull cable. Neat Fact: it was restored by a former employee of Don Aronow - a little more information about who he was below.The boat remains in excellent condition as it was mainly a collectible and always stored indoors.For more information email, or call phone

TheMagnum Marine Corporationis an American builder of performance and luxuryyachtsbased inMiami, Florida.

Design history

The beginning of the American high-performance,deep-veeboat building industry is said to have started in 1958, with the first deep-veehull, designed by Ray Hunt. The Hunt design had a 24 degree deadrise, which eliminated much of the pounding of the conventional hulls. An added feature of the Hunt design, were longitudinal strakes on the bottom to give added lift and throw out the spray to keep the boat dry. This 24 degree deepvee hull is the foundation of the Magnum design.

Naval architect, Jim Wynne, was impressed with the characteristics and performance of Hunts boat and designed a similar deep-vee hull, which was equally successful. In 1962,Don Aronow, a retired real estate developer, asked Jim Wynne and Walt Walters to design a high performance Deep-Vee hull for him to race. This was the first of the famed, Aronow hulls, which he promoted first under the name Formula, then Donzi, then Magnum (1966 1968), then Cigarette boats.

1968 Magnum Missile tunnel hull, Mercury 2.4 Bridge Port 265HP, and trailer. It is most definitely overpowered but was impeccably rigged. For instance, the motor was installed with a mechanical trim gauge w/a push-pull cable. Neat Fact: it was restored by a former employee of Don Aronow - a little more information about who he was below.The boat remains in excellent condition as it was mainly a collectible and always stored indoors.For more information email, or call phone

TheMagnum Marine Corporationis an American builder of performance and luxuryyachtsbased inMiami, Florida.

Design history

The beginning of the American high-performance,deep-veeboat building industry is said to have started in 1958, with the first deep-veehull, designed by Ray Hunt. The Hunt design had a 24 degree deadrise, which eliminated much of the pounding of the conventional hulls. An added feature of the Hunt design, were longitudinal strakes on the bottom to give added lift and throw out the spray to keep the boat dry. This 24 degree deepvee hull is the foundation of the Magnum design.

Naval architect, Jim Wynne, was impressed with the characteristics and performance of Hunts boat and designed a similar deep-vee hull, which was equally successful. In 1962,Don Aronow, a retired real estate developer, asked Jim Wynne and Walt Walters to design a high performance Deep-Vee hull for him to race. This was the first of the famed, Aronow hulls, which he promoted first under the name Formula, then Donzi, then Magnum (1966 1968), then Cigarette boats.