Category: Boats

(pic on facebook…bottom side of a British outboard hydro?)

seen on Switzerwing & vintageraceboats facebook page…. …is this boat over in England?

Phil Kunz & Bill Holder had a recently published article in Engine Builder magazine. Click on each page to read the article. Reprinted with permission from Engine Builder magazine, Babcox Media Inc. Copyright 2012.

Now here’s an interesting Gold Cup boat that has been stored for 50 years & recently acquired by Mike Michaud. Powered by a Ranger 12 cylinder air cooled airplane motor. We put a page together. Read more about this unique boat here.

First test run of Miss U.S. at the Pepsi Racing Power Cup Challenge in South Dakota on June 16, 2012. Built in 1958, the Lauterbach Unlimited hydro has been fully restored by owner Jay Armstrong. The video shows the pre-race drivers meeting, the launching of Miss U.S., the initial test …

saw this pic of the motor being installed in Miss Canada IV. _________________________________________________ ……and those Californians have Scrappy looking like a new boat.

Guido also sent me a neat pic of him and his Molinari-A.R. 1966 running on Lake Como:

Photo courtesy of Larry Jennings