Category: Boats

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 …

Gee Whizzz A-29Bob Johanson of Benton City, Washington started his racing in the the N class and changed to the A class in 1964. He campaigned all his boats under the GEE WHIZZZ name and was always running up front through the early to mid 1960s. His webpage is full of …

Welcome to the WANTED POSTERS covers. Over the last many years, Phil Kunz has added a 118 Wanted Posters to his website. We assembled all of them into a neat lil’ flip book format for all to enjoy. The posters are in order by inboard hydroplane classes. If you are …

The last story on the COUNTRY BOY series. The above Phil Kunz photos are just a sample of some of the boats Mike Wiener had for the Country Boy Race Team. This story features all the boats that Mike Wiener used for his COUNTRY BOY team.

Uploaded the pics for the monthly calendars for the rest of 2023

The original frame of the Porsche 356. The frame was used as a template for future metal bodies. A time-consuming process of trial and error, the steps were repeated over and over again until the doors, hoods, roof, and fenders fit the wooden model perfectly. Photo By Heritage and Porsche …

John Siracusa was one of four brothers in the Siracusa family that campaigned hydros out of the New Orleans Power Boat Association. They were known as the Possum Navy. This family has lots of great racing history between them all, but this story only features the hydros that John Siracusa …

I rebuilt our entire section on old media from the past. This section also includes a NEW area of the website featuring newspaper articles from Dayton and St Pete. Many thanks to Phil Kunz. He made it a point to buy/collect newspapers from when he was at these races.