Category: Boats

New Monthly Calendars posted for the first Quarter of 2024.

VINTAGE RACERS REDISCOVERED: “After many years of trying, I have been able to purchase the Z-Z-ZIP from Carl Schmidli of North Tonawanda, NY. Carl stored this 1955 Joe Guess raceboat in his pole barn for the last 20 years. He bought the Z-Z-ZIP from Gordie Reed, with the intentions of …

Sorry, missing the last page(s). This article has lots of info on many of the boat engines Keith Black built.If you are on a desktop computer – the best way to view this book is to click the “toggle fullscreen” button, then use your arrow buttons on the keyboard to …

The flipbook starts out with an interesting 3-page interview from October 1998 with Robert Stack. Other info: From Wikipedia: By the time he was 20, Stack had achieved minor fame as a sportsman. He was an avid polo player and shooter. His brother and him won the International Outboard Motor …

The Farmer family send me a copy of the scrapbook that Will, Jr. made as a X-Mas present for his father. This was right after they built their last hydro in 1974. It was updated last in 2000. I received it soon after. My apologies to the Farmer family for …

Ted Jones in SLOMO. Photos by Leo Livingston 1951. Posted by Finn Livingston on Hydroplane History (facebook)

Don Buddo posted this on Vintage Hydroplanes – Skiffs & Outboards (facebook), “My father testing his hydroplane on the Thames River in London, Ontario around 1948”

Randy Wold sent me the link and noted, “Ron Jones Sr. told me at San Diego the Thriftway Too used a borrowed propeller from Bernie Little to qualify and the boat set a real fast time and when it returned to the dock Bernie wanted the propeller back right away.” …

Jim Jabczenski, son of Mitchell Jabczenski, sent in some pics from the family’s scrap book of his father’s and grandfather’s hydroplanes that they campaigned in the 1950s to 60s. Bud James is also mentioned (my father’s mechanic) and drove F-89 sometimes. The Vintage Hydroplanes has stories of both boats authored …