The first successful three-pointers were the product of the famed Ventnor Boat Works of Ventnor New Jersey.

Hydroplane boat history. First a little bit of history on the real Miss Budweiser T-4 Hydroplane Roger Newton was also at the Nationals and I had the pleasure of meeting him also. Fearless Fred is known for driving nineteen different Unlimited hydroplanes in competition more than anyone else. The end of the 80s was fast approaching and so was the end of a new project that Allan Beale and Alan Healy had been working on.

1 Championship for single engine inboard karts that year. One story that Taggart enjoys telling is of a lightweight plywood crackerbox oval-racing boat he became aware of by hearing its engine fire up in an Oak View California neighborhood. Were the founders of Dolphin Marine later Dolphin Engineering and Research Co.

What a delight to see this. All the material from the old site is being updated and recoded to modern web standards. The Hydroplane Raceboat Musuem.

John McGinnis Williams - Winner of the Griffith Cup Australasian Motor Boat Championship 1924 1925. Owned jointly by Stan Jones and Bob Saniga this 23 foot hydroplane was one of the first Australian race boats to successfully run a World War II ex-aircraft engine in this case a massive V12. This made the boat stronger and lighter and minimized the.

True to the article above Craig Bowman was recruited by my dad to drive my boat I was too young and inexperienced at the time. Although the collection includes Hacker Gar Wood Century and Chris-Craft runabouts most are racing hydroplanes dating from 1937 to the 1970s. And the beam 7 ft the point of greatest beam being well forward of amidships while the stern finished to a point a direct contrast to modern power boats.

With regard to her underwater lines. The late-1930s witnessed the birth of a radically different concept in competitive power boat designs--the three-point hydroplane which would forever alter the course of boat racing history. In the mid 1970s Steve Ball of San Diego California designed and built this unique 21 boat and powered it with a Fiat engine to compete in the 850-cc hydro class.