Media From The Past

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.

Race Boat Programs

I have an appreciation for boat racing that is turned into artwork and Race Programs had many fine examples of this work. I took all the Race Program covers we had (almost 300 of them) and put them into a flip book. The covers are arranged within the book in …

George Walther’s Country Boy

Phil Kunz is doing 3 stories on the boats that campaigned under the COUNTRY BOY name. The first CB story is on George Walther and his sons. The other stories will be the Wiener family’s Country Boy and the Siracusa family’s Country Boy. The Walther’s boats campaigned under the name …

Sunshine Baby

We entirely rebuilt Ray Gassner’s Sunshine Baby webpage. Fascinating history on the 4 hydros Ray campaigned under the Sunshine Baby name. Ray started his racing career off running a Ventnor, then a Hallett, followed by a Lauterbach (F-57), and finishing up with SB IV H-57 (another Lauterbach). He was very successful with many great wins throughout the Sunshine Baby history. Many thanks again to 2 folks: Brent McLean who started this webpage years ago and for digging more artifacts out and helping again with photo captions and Phil Kunz for giving us more great pics (like this pic showing the H-57 supercharged Hemi above). Check it out.