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A Detroit Debacle
A Seattle Hydro Roared Home First In The Gold Cup But Then Officials Stepped In, And The Affair Became A Detroit Debacle. By Jim Atwater Reprinted from Sports Illustrated, September 10, 1956 Covered… View »
A Complete List of Madison Drivers
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Marion Cooper* (1961, 1962) Morlan Visel* (1963) Buddy Byers (1963, 1964, 1965) Jim McCormick* (1966, 1969, 1970, 1971) Ed O'Halloran* (1967, 1968) Cha… View »
A Century of Gold Cup Racing
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Officially known as the "American Power Boat Association Challenge Cup," the Gold Cup is the ultimate prize that every competitor strives to win at lea… View »
A Brief History of Unlimited Hydroplane Racing
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Power boats of one description or another have existed since as early as 1887. That was the year when Gottlieb Daimler hitched a crude petrol motor to… View »
A Brief History of the President's Cup
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The President's Cup was contested by Unlimited hydroplanes between 1926 and 1977, with time out for World War II (1941-1945). After 1977, the President… View »
A Brief History of the Madison Regatta
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Madison, Indiana, is steeped in a competitive tradition that dates back to the 1800s when steamboats raced each other on the legendary Ohio River. Perh… View »
A Brief History of the Gold Cup
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The APBA Gold Cup is to power boat racing what the Super Bowl is to football, what the Kentucky Derby is to horse racing, what the World Series is to b… View »
A Brief History of Miss Tri-Cities (former Scooter Too)
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian One of those rare examples of an Unlimited hydroplane with a W-24 (as opposed to a V-12) Allison engine, SCOOTER TOO was built in 1955 by Bart Carter f… View »
A Brief History of Current Unlimited Race Sites
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Of the seven scheduled race sites for 2006, six have hosted Unlimited competition in the past. The 2005 event in Valleyfield, Quebec, was only an exhib… View »
A Brief History of Canadian Roostertails
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The 2005 American Boat Racing Association series for Unlimited hydroplanes includes an exhibition appearance "North of the Border" at Valleyfield, Queb… View »
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