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With Rick at the Fort Lauderdale Boat Show.General Manager of Doller Offshore Marine Mac Morris
sporting one of his rare grins!

waterfront, she would stare endlessly at a Mindi and she moved a step closer to that retired to the Sunshine State, Ron in his free
backdrop of floating performance boats amazing lifestyle after meeting Ron Doller time would pedal his bike up and down N.E.

while thinking, “wow, what an amazing through a mutual friend at a happy-hour 188th Street’s historic Thunderboat Row.
lifestyle.”hot-spot, The Bimini Boatyard.One afternoon he asked a simple ques-
Reality would soon reinvent itself forOriginally an Ohio soybean farmer whotion to a larger-than-life gentleman he spot-

ted stepping out of a tinted-window sport-
ster. “Hey, can I wash your car for you?”

Don Aronow, the “fastest man in town”
replied back, “yes.”
Personality-wise, Ron was a unique

character and it didn’t take long for him
to move from his car-cleaning service to

lending a hand to highroller Jerry Jacoby at
Cigarette Racing and Hawk Marine Power.
Easily seduced into the glamorous life of

fast boats, he then opened his own Fort
Apache facility. Once established, Ron was

also instrumental in helping to assemble
the Doller Marine Special race team, which
grabbed top honors during the 1989 Great

Race from Trinidad to Tobago.
Since Ron was well-established in the

high performance boating industry when
he met Doller, during their second meet-
up he gave her a little taste of horsepower

during her maiden voyage in a 38’ Cigarette
Top Gun splashed in Sonny Crockett shades

of teal and pastel pink. Hooked on power
boating and on Ron, the duo exchanged

wedding vows while ringing in the New
Year for 1995’.
Tragedy then struck three years later

when Ron was diagnosed with advanced-
stage Kidney cancer, which spread into his

lungs. Given six-months to live, he passed
away at 56. Phil Lipschutz, his closest
friend and owner of North Miami’s Lip-

Ship Performance added,”His ashes were
spread on the start finish line of the Miami Hanging out with the co-owners of Sunsation during the Miami International Boat Show
(l-r) Wayne Schaldenbrand, Kyle Miller, Jared Morris and Joe Schaldenbrand at the
Offshore Grand Prix. I used a Cigarette 38’ Miami Boat Show.
Top-Gun with Number 6 Drives and 900 hp

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