Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum
We're racing through history!
Putting the “Unlimited” into Hydroplanes by Kirsten N. Johnson Gar Wood's great niece When the calendar recently turned from 2019 to 2020, it marked the centurial of a truly epic year in speedboat racing history. 1920 was a year of speedboat glory for America, and for two men in particular. Gar Wood and Chris Smith - working out of a small boat shop in Algonac, Michigan - had now built the fas…