Category: Racing Memories

We added 13 newspaper articles from the 1979 Nationals to our “Newspaper Articles From The Past – DAYTON – 1962 through 1999“. This completes this section of all the newspaper articles that Phil Kunz collected over the years.

There is a total of 11 newsprint articles from the 1980 NATIONALS in Dayton posted. Visit our media page and scroll down to the “1980 Dayton” articles, then click on each small pic to read the entire newspaper article.

“Eastern Competition Boat Builders” was an article written by Jack Sweeney for HOT BOAT QUARTERLY in 1966. 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 advance to …

I received this email from Sean 10/1/2023: Hello sir and good day.  My name is Sean Zeiders.  I am an auctioneer in PA and I had the absolute pleasure of spending a little over a year going through and selling the Lloyd estate after the unfortunate passing of Mike in …

I saw your website and want to share a photo I have of my dad’s hydroplane from 1950-1955. My dad was Dr. Ralph Beare of Celina, Ohio and our driver was Larry Kruger of Neptune, Ohio. Larry died from a swimming accident in August of 1955 at a race in …

Around 25 Race Program covers added to the Race Programs page. I really enjoy looking at these. These covers were usually put together with good-looking artwork, graphics and photos. They truly give a neat historical look into our sport’s past racing regattas. Many thanks to Bob ‘Pappy’ Moore and Bill …