Check out Art Widagdho’s Magnum 53 Sports Cruiser! “There are many great love stories, but I like ours best.” It was love at first sight, love of the stringers, to be exact. By the time I first saw her, I realized that the 1986 Magnum 53 would be mine. She’s a beauty, no doubt, yet after years “sleeping”…
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Check out Chris And Ian Toll’s Epic Magnum 27. Balestrieri and Pruett won the Sam Griffith Trophy in 1968 in Miami with the Magnum 27. Balestrieri then took the Magnum to race in Europe and it sank when competing in a very rough Cowes-to-Torquay race in August 1968, when he was in the lead. “The…
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Check out Ali Karacan’s gorgeous Magnum 56. Ali bought Kat Cat for himself for his 40th birthday. She was shipped from Miami to Italy, and the crew then drove her from Italy to Athens, and from there to Kusadasi, in Turkey. The seas were horrendous that day, but the crew kept driving all night from Athens to Kusadasi, and…
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The Magnum 70 is featured in the latest edition of Boat Attitude Book, on page 22! Three double cabins each equipped with its own head, a gallery and salon as well as crew quarters offer comfortable accommodations for extended cruises. Topside, the expansive foredeck and sun pads offer an ideal setting to enjoy the ocean.…
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Check out this awesome story featuring the Magnum Maltese! Magnum Marine’s timeless work of art, both featured in a plethora of advertising and used for offshore racing, the Magnum Maltese #1 was discovered and completely restored by Tom M. It was a chilly December morning. I had recently finished restoring a 1979 Excalibur and was…
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Magnum Marine is featured in GQ Magazine Italia, September 2016, on page 134! “There are days when everything else seems to disappear: the kings, actresses, martinis, and party under the moon.” A writer tells the charm of a symbolic place… of our Dolce Vita.
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Check out Joe Tilton’s gorgeous red Magnum 27′ Sedan. “As one of your faithful diehard Magnum freaks, I have attached some photos of my 1970 Sedan. I cannot begin to tell you how this boat has changed my life, and as crazy as that sounds, I know there is a large amount of people who…
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Check out the famous Italian architect, Ivo Maria Redaelli, with his gorgeous yellow Magnum 44. “My usual destination is Sardinia, but I often do short cruises to Capri, Elba, Ischia, Liguria, and Corsica,” Redaelli says about his sleek yellow Magnum. “I’ll often have breakfast in Capri’s famous square and then eat lunch on an island…
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In July 2016, the 1st International Gathering Historical of Offshore Boats was held, featuring the antique boat Award for the “VBV Legend.
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With this reputation, it is not difficult to see why the major defense contractor, McDonnell Douglas, chose a Magnum to market the world’s most advanced weapon system: the Nighthawk and the M-230 30 mm Cannon. They were looking for a craft, which epitomized top quality as well as endurance, reliability, ruggedness, and maximum operational capabilities.
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Check out the video, above, of Magnum Marine running the Miami-Nassau-Miami Sea Races, spanning from 1986-1988. As they say in the video feature, simply calling a Magnum Marine a race boat is like calling Rolls Royce a stock car.
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In 1966 Don Aronow, now offshore champion and boat builder, built himself a new 27′ race boat, which he named “Maltese Magnum”. The boat became World Champion and Don Aronow built a small factory to build more boats just like it: Magnum Marine was founded. All of Aronow’s brands were winning offshore races and all…
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Don wanted to be involved in the boat business, offshore racing, or anything that was different from being a builder in New Jersey. He moved to Bay Harbor, on Miami Beach, and drove back and forth in a new chocolate brown Rolls Royce.
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The brand’s savior turned out to be the Italian Marchese, Filippo Theodoli. Filippo had developed an early passion for the sea during his training at the Naval Academy, graduating shortly before the outbreak of World War II.
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The original 27’ became the backbone of Magnum Marine in the 60s and early 70s. “It was a very important boat because of its race heritage,” says Lee Wangstad, a marine historian. “It was the hottest thing out there.
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The Magnum 53′ was launched in 1977. There was no other boat in the world like her. She was a giant race boat with a deep-V hull and powerful diesel engines. She was the world’s first power yacht and exactly what Filippo had envisioned.
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In 1989, Filippo launched what would be the pinnacle of his career: the Magnum 70. Designed also by Pininfarina and laminated in Kevlar, for weight saving and hull strength, the Magnum 70 was the largest and fastest production power yacht of its time.
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Magnum 80 became known as Magnum Marine’s Flagship yacht after its debut. The concept of an even larger yacht had been around since a client had asked Filippo to build a Magnum 90 many years before.
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After selling Donzi Marine to Teleflex, Inc. in April 1965, Don Aronow started up Magnum Marine next door, in the spring of 1966. The basis of Magnum was to be the 35’ Donzi, designed by Wynne and Walters (mostly Walters) for Donzi.
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Magnum 50 design exceeds expectations with a combination of style and function. For the design of the Magnum 50, Katrin turned to Paolo Martin, an Italian designer who, like Pininfarina, had made his mark designing fast cars. Martin started with an open mind and a blank sheet of paper. “I had to work with the…
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