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1956 Seafair Trophy Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Seattle, Washington, was a comparative newcomer to the sport of Unlimited hydroplane racing in 1956. The Seattle-based SLO-MO-SHUN IV had won the 1950… View »
1956 Hawaii Mile Trial Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The first race for Unlimited hydroplanes in Hawaii occurred in 1990. But the first APBA-sanctioned activity in that state for Unlimiteds took place lon… View »
The 1956 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian For sheer acrimony, nothing tops the protest-ridden 1956 Gold Cup, which took 85 days to settle. MISS THRIFTWAY and Bill Muncey were eventually declare… View »
1955 Lake Tahoe Mapes Trophy
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The 1955 Mapes Trophy took place on September 10 of that year. Only three Unlimiteds participated. So the race didn't count for APBA National High Poin… View »
1955 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Lee Schoenith and GALE V from Detroit finally broke up the Seattle Yacht Club’s five-year monopoly of the Gold Cup in 1955. GALE V won a disputed decis… View »
1954 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian For pure boat racing, it's hard to top the classic 1954 Gold Cup at Seattle. Indeed, boats ran head-to-head with each other all day long on that memora… View »
1953 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The 1953 APBA Gold Cup continued the victory string in the race of races by the Seattle-based SLO-MO-SHUN team, owned by Stanley S. Sayres. With driver… View »
1952 President's Cup Regatta
By David Beach Beneath a sky that made photography a pleasure, the 1952 President's Cup Regatta reestablished the Unlimited Hydroplane class as the most spectacular in APBA racing. Not one case of "g… View »
1952 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The twin-Allison-powered step hydroplane MISS PEPSI was really on a roll in 1952. She won the majority of the races she entered--but not the Gold Cup.… View »
1951 Gold Cup Remembered
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplae Historian The first West Coast Unlimited hydroplane race to count for APBA National Points was the 1951 APBA Gold Cup on Seattle's Lake Washington. SLO-MO-SHUN IV… View »
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