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| Driver Ron Armstrong (lower right) was thrown from his boat, the Valu-Mart, when it lost a rudder and crashed near the finish line during Heat 1A of yesterday's Champion Spark Plug Regatta at Miami Marine Stadium. Photo by Bill Reinke, Miami News staff photographer. |
Valu-Mart driver Ron Armstrong was thrown out as the boat hooked and spun to the right. Miraculously, Armstrong was not seriously injured, suffering only a bruised neck. His boat, however, was not so lucky. With its transom completely torn out, the boat sank before it could be retrieved.