Tim Powell international offshore powerboat race overalls, in red with embroidered event patches for the 1976 Benihana Grand Prix New Jersey, 1976 and
£300 - £500
Tim Powell international offshore powerboat race overalls, in red with embroidered event patches for the 1976 Benihana Grand Prix New Jersey, 1976 and 1977 Keywest Offshore races, also the UK Offshore Boating Association, Powerboat magazine and sponsors British Caledonian Airways; together with a yellow waterproof oversuit, the name POWELL hand-written beneath a Morgan Sportswear of Cowes makers label, a pair of thermal over-boots and plaques for the 1979, 1980 and 1983 Cowes-Torquay-Cowes International Powerboat Races (7) Despite being a regular offshore powerboat competitor from the mid-1960s onwards, Tim Powell will always be remembered as the saviour of what would become the world's longest running Powerboat Race: Cowes-Torquay-Cowes, after its Daily Express sponsorship suddenly disappeared in 1978, though he eventually did win the event in 2001 at the age of 63.