<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (November 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> A go - fast boat is a small, fast boat designed with a long narrow platform and a planing hull to enable it to reach high speeds . </P> <P> During the era of Prohibition in the United States, these boats joined the ranks of "rum - runners" transferring illegal liquor from larger vessels waiting outside U.S. territorial waters to the mainland . The high speed of such craft enabled them to avoid interception by the Coast Guard . More recently the term "cigarette boat" has replaced the term "rum - runner". The present era of cigarette boats, dating from the 1960s, owes much of their design to boats designed for offshore powerboat racing, particularly by designer and builder Donald Aronow . During this period, these boats were used by drug smugglers to transfer drugs across the Caribbean to the United States . </P>

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