Before Magnum 1958-1965

The beginnings of the American high-performance, deep-vee boat building industry are said to have started in 1958, when Dick Bertram first discovered Ray Hunt’s new deep-vee boat at the America Cup Trials. In his book, “The deep-vee Story”, Dick Bertram writes: “Other boats (powerboats) had vee bottoms before, but the vee and the deadrise (the…