BS - I cant wait to see what you have discovered.
I have researched a little about the 1964 Miami -Bimini race. *This is a diffrent race then the Miami-Nassau races of bertram fame? *
Was the Miami - Bimini race the "Sam Griffith Memorial" race?
If so - I found some contradictory info on that race:
First - From
http://www.njppc.com/OldOffshoreStor...ofoffshore.htm
"A fourth, the Sam Griffith Memorial added in the winter of 1964, was first won by American Jim Wynne, then fittingly by Bertram. The Sam Griffith Trophy provided the voltage the sport needed to really catch fire. By 1977 there were 35 races being staged worldwide, most of them point contests for the trophy."
So that says that *Jim Wynne won that race in 1964. *But, I found this on *the same website:
"First of these 145-mile Sam Griffith Memorial Ocean Powerboat races was run in February, 1964. So rough was the water that only three of the 15 starters completed the course. The winner was Dick Bertram in Lucky Moppie. The following year saw half of the 22 starters make the finish line. Victory and the current~ record went to Bill Wishnick’s Broad Jumper with an average speed of 44 m.p.h. "
http://www.njppc.com/OldOffshoreStor...gazine1966.htm
So that says that Bertram won the race. *Next, I found this:
"The best jumping story of mine is from the 1964 Sam Griffith Memorial race, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Bimini-Miami. It was rougher than a *****. In those days, we didn't have the "small-craft rule". If it was too rough for you, don't go. A customer of mine called and said that he was in a hotel in Miami Beach and heard a lot of noise from the ocean. He said that he glanced out the window, and saw John Raulerson's 30' diesel Alim v30 go right past his window. I said "What is so strange about that?" He said I am on the seventh floor."
http://www.donzi.net/forums/printthread.php?t=24118
So this seems to say that a V30 was in the race that the other site says was won by Wynne and Bertram. *I dont know if any of this helps you at all.
Do you have a pic of an Alim boat?