Big motor in back with a few church pews in front for all the paying customers.

Hydroplane boat wrecks. Unlimiteds are the biggest up to four tons the fastest up to 200 miles an hour in special time trials the loudest noise from their 2000-horsepower aircraft engines is deafening and the most photogenic two tons of water thrown in a white roostertail 75 feet high and 300 feet long. The boat sank but was later recovered and the racing continued. ROOSTERTAILS TAREE AQUATIC POWER BOAT CLUB.

During the first heat of the 1977 race Bangs was piloting the Squire Shop when his boat hooked a sponson and threw him from the cockpit killing him instantly. She sported a green and yellow color. The first hydroplane-racing fatalities occurred in Seattle in 1951 when a driver and riding mechanic of the Quicksilver drowned when the boat sank.

A modern Unlimited Hydroplane is the worlds fastest racing boat capable of speeds in excess of 200 mph. The boat reminds me of the thrill jet boats that Ive taken at tourist destinations. When an unlimited hydroplane is going right nothing else can match it for excitement.

During eliminations his boat was traveling about 140 MPH when the boat began rocking back and forth on its sponsons. It represents the product of over 100 years of evolution in race boat design and incorporates the most powerful engines most advanced construction techniques and the best safety systems available in boat racing today. Link to H1 Unlimited website.

All Unlimited Hydroplanes are a three point design. Balboa Raceways Championship Circle and Drag Boat Race. The craft cartwheeled a few times and.

Seattle attorney Jerry Bangs was the third victim in the history of hydroplane racing on Lake Washington. The problem comes in the form of wind gusts blowing across the water in the boats path. John McGinnis Williams - Winner of the Griffith Cup Australasian Motor Boat Championship 1924 1925.