Articles about boats
The Smirnoff Saga (Photo: Sandy Ross) The Miss Smirnoff with driver Bill Cantrell in 1964. By Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Three Unlimited hydroplanes carried the SMIRNOFF name into competition between 1964 and 1968. (The MISS was dropped from…
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…
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 Notre Dame Story (Photo: Patrick Gleason) The restored 1962 Notre Dame makes an exhibition run on Lake Chelan during Mahogany & Merlot. By: Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Between the years 1935 and 1973, one of APBA racing’s…
The Return of the Hurricane (Source: Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum) Ken Muscatel drives the newly restored Hurricane IV on Mission Bay in San Diego. By: Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian At the 2008 San Diego Bayfair, Unlimited hydroplane fans…
The Return of the Hurricane (Source: Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum) Ken Muscatel drives the newly restored Hurricane IV on Mission Bay in San Diego. By: Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian At the 2008 San Diego Bayfair, Unlimited hydroplane fans…
A Brief History of Miss Spokane (Photo: Mark Douty) Miss Spokane on tilt. By: Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The saga of Miss Spokane began in the fall of 1957 when a small group of Spokane, Washington hydroplane enthusiasts formed first…
Silent Seafair Thunder U-95 (Source: Hydroplane & Raceboat Museum Collection) The U-95 the first-ever Unlimited Hydroplane to use a turbine engine. Reprinted from The Guide, July 31, 1973 It’s a bird, it’s a plane! No, it’s, it’s Super-boat! Where? Why where…
1973 Pay ‘N Pak (Photo: Patrick Gleason) The restored 1973 Pay ‘N Pak during the annual Mahogany & Merlot event in Chelan, Washington. By: Aaron Lynch – Reprinted from News has broken recently that Ken Muscatel has purchased the former…
A Tribute to the Griffon Bud By: Fred Farley – Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The Rolls-Royce Griffon-powered MISS BUDWEISER of 1980 is one of the sport’s legendary champions. Nicknamed the “Juggernaut,” the Griffon BUD won 22 races and defined the state…