1968, The Checkerboard Comet and the “Year that Changed the World” By David D. Williams 2008 marks the 40th Anniversary of the tumultuous summer of 1968. To those of us that lived through it, it was a long hot summer…
1952 President’s Cup Remembered By David Beach Beneath a sky that made photography a pleasure, the 1952 President’s Cup Regatta reestablished the Unlimited Hydroplane class as the most spectacular in APBA racing. Not one case of “gearboxitus” developed during the…
Tom D’Eath swept all preliminary heats and the Final to win the 1988 Budweiser Columbia Cup. Chip Hanauer finished second place in the Miss Circus Circus while Scott Pierce rounded out the podium driving the Mr. Pringle’s. U-1 Miss Budweiser…
Two Winners in One Race By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The 1955 Lake Tahoe Mapes Trophy contains an unusual historical footnote. It had two winners. That’s right, TWO winners. Well, yes and no. The 1955 Mapes Trophy took…
Two Winners in One Race By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The 1955 Lake Tahoe Mapes Trophy contains an unusual historical footnote. It had two winners. That’s right, TWO winners. Well, yes and no. The 1955 Mapes Trophy took…
Bernie Little Remembered (Source: Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum Collection) Bernie Little poses with his driver Dean Bernie Little Dean Chenoweth during the 1982 season. By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Bernie Little, the most successful owner in the history of…
Don’t forget to RSVP and buy your tickets for our very popular Annual Meeting & Holiday Party happening on Saturday, December 6th! ** RSVP REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS MEMBERS-ONLY EVENT! 6 – PM here at the Hydroplane Museum ~ $25…
1938 Gold Cup Remembered By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The U.S. team held back the foreign challenge in 1937 but bowed to Count Rossi in 1938. Rossi pushed his 19-foot 7-inch ALAGI, powered by half of an Isotta-Fraschini…
Miss Chrysler Crew Remembered By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian In power boat racing, radical ideas have a bad habit of going nowhere. For every SLO-MO-SHUN IV that made it, there’s a ZEPHYR-FURY, a MISS LIBERTY, a LION BAR…
The Madison Regatta – 50 Years of Thunder By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian 1950s For 50 years, the city of Madison, Indiana, has played host to “Water Racing’s Greatest Show,” the Unlimited hydroplanes-the Thunderboats of the racing world.…