) "Challenger 1". He bought it after watching one of my old dual engine Glastrons at races..........We rigged it at K&K Outboard with twin 110 Merc inlines and speedmasters and it was a slug....no speed, bad turning and handling, terrible in rough water (it spit his co-driver out in the old Nyack Regatta on the Hudson River)..... but very pretty in Red Metalflake with real gold leaf lettering.... I called it George's "Skateboard". Art Carlson had told George that the hull design ( a cat in the front with an SK like flatbottom in the rear)would bank in turns and get around a short course quickly.....After the boat was completed we tested it repeatedly and none of us could get it to bank or turn quickly.... The boat's first race was the Orange Bowl 9 hour and, lo and behold, Art Carlson was there. George tells the story of asking Art to drive it and show him how to turn the thing. Carlson apparently begged off saying he had a head ache and never went near the boat for the remainder of the event.
)..... Later George called his award winning 21 vee bottom design..... "Challenger". I wonder why..... George learned so much about how NOT to design a boat from the Carlson, that he wound up creating some of the most iconic hull designs in offshore history.......with a little help from his friends...
