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1962 U-7 Notre Dame

1962 Notre Dame background

About the 1962 Notre Dame There was a time when hydroplane racing was a ‘gentleman’s sport’, when successful entrepreneurs invested their hard-earned wealth in something akin to a water-borne sport of kings.  Industrialists like Dodge, Kaiser, Boeing and DuPont, were…

Gale V – Gale VI

Gale V Crew

Joe and Lee Schoenith raced Unlimited hydroplanes from 1950 to 1975. Most of their boats were named GALE, sponsored by W.D. Gale, Inc., a Detroit-based electrical contracting firm, which the Schoeniths owned.