March and April Monthly 2017 Calendars are posted. Many thanks to Phil Kunz for gracing us with more of his photography work for the monthly calendars. So far, I am only showing the Tavares Spring Thunder vintage event for March 17-19. No word yet from the APBA Vintage folks for any other events.
From New Zealand: Ben Knight (PG Knight’s son and Peter’s grandson) sends us a few pics of their restored A class hydro that they finished up on 2 years ago. They have been taking it to a vintage regattas in New Zealand. The boat raced at Valleyfield in 1967 then …
A new historical web page added to the boats section on HANK’S PRANK series of Sooy hulls that Henry (Hank) J. Evans Jr. campaigned for years along the Eastern US.
I saw this new website look and thought this would be a nice one to freshen up our website with. If you have a REALLY neat photo and think it is “cover material” for The Vintage Hydroplanes (like the old “Photo From A Moment” we used to do a few years …
Filmed by Steve Drucker’s “Don’t Tell Mom E-87” crew while running his Jones E-class vintage inboard hydroplane at the event.
1998 Antique Race Boat Regatta is held at the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York. The event is held every 2 years. Please excuse my poor use of a borrowed camcorder. Also, I always like to watch YouTube videos on YouTube. After you click on the “play” button, click …
Interesting boats and hull designs to say the least… The Author of the article states, “Information on the airboats was hard to find, but everything I found indicated they were used solely for racing (at that time in Italy)”. Some of these early Italian design hulls (due to the sponsons) …
Welcome 2017. The 2017 monthly calendars are, once again, posted. Well, I have posted January & February. If you have a neat vintage-related photo and would like to see it featured, please email it to me. If no pics come in, I will rely on ‘borrowing pics’ from Facebook as well …
Hey Folks – I r’cd the following below from Chris who just acquired this beautiful hydro. It is always great to read about another hydro that survived just enough to be restored. Interesting that it appears to have water-cooled headers running on-board. Perhaps a cool lake racer in it’s last version, …
