Please take note of a NEW link in our Navigation menu called “flip books” which will take you to our webpage that is the Table of Contents for our Flip Books. I really like this feature and have been using it for newspaper articles, larger collections of photos or other scanned media, books, etc. Appreciate you visiting our website and feel free to let me know what you think of the flip books.
The Danbury Racers
Neat article put out on the ACBS website
“The Great Danbury State Fair was established in 1869 in Danbury, Connecticut, and by the early 1900s it was the largest agricultural fair in New England. In 1949 the Great Danbury State Fair Grounds opened the nation’s first landlocked, oval, boat-racing speedway—the Aquaway—to augment its successful stock-car racing program. This flooded racecourse, which was built on the fairgrounds’ historic horseracing course, was approximately a quarter-mile long, 30-feet wide and three-feet deep, with wooden sides that leaked and constantly had to be refilled.”
SOUTHERN AIR
F.C. ‘Doc’ Moor campaigned very successfully in the Y class with his SOUTHERN AIR hydros, winning 9 National Championships from 1957 to 1972. He also did well with his L class hydros winning 2 National Championships. He set numerous speed records along the way. Some folks may not know this, but he also tried his hand in the E and A class hydro classes. Click here to read more about ‘Doc’ and his boats (and his neat day time business).
CAVALIER TOO E-35 | Lauterbach that was built by Frank Farmer
This Lauterbach design had the teardrop sponsons.
Visit the webpage on CAVALIER TOO E-35. This “Lauterbach” hydro was built, owned and driven by Frank Farmer (Will Farmer’s nephew). Frank sent us his pics from 1966 as he built the boat. Frank used Lauterbach plans and guidance from Henry Lauterbach and purchased most of the hardware from Henry. Very cool to see the build pics. Frank also sent us some pics of a S-396 CAVALIER TOO which is another hydro that he built and campaigned.
Dayton Newspaper articles
Dayton had their races on the Miami River from 1946-1953. In 1954, they moved the race site on the river to what is now Carillon Historical Park along the Miami River and it was a big hit. We have added 15 Newspaper articles and photographs to our Media From The Past section of the website listed under the articles from Dayton newspapers. When you get there look in the 1954-1955 years.
From 1956 to 1964 Dayton did not host any inboard boat races. In 1965, they started having the races again at the Hydrobowl (Eastwood Lake) and you will note the newspaper articles start up again on that webpage.
