I was informed by Ralph's wife Mary last night that Ralph past away September 6. Ralph had a very stressful summer as his beloved Magnum Maltese sank on Lake St Clair with him & Mary on-board, than the fight to get it back from a towboat company that laid claim to it would put anybody over the edge. Ralph still had his red 18' Donzi that he was finally finishing up with a crazy smallblock engine he was building, as Mary told me it was almost done but unfortunately he never was able to run it. Ralph told me from his hospital bed that that Donzi was keeping his spirits up from a summer he would never forget. I believe his son's will finish these projects up & make Ralph's dream Donzi come to life.