Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum
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By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian As race day neared, I familiarized myself with the town. I stayed at the famous old Broadway Hotel, which is located within walking distance of the pit… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian I shall deal at some length on my first visit to Madison, Indiana, for reasons that will become obvious. In the popular song ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH, John… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian In the spring of 1971, I was newly graduated from the University of Washington, unemployed, broke, and recently detached from the Seafair committee. I… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian On Sunday, June 19, 1966, I was pounding away on the typewriter when a radio news bulletin from Washington, D.C., interrupted my concentration. Ron Mus… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian The chain of events that ultimately led to my 1973 appointment as APBA Unlimited Historian began when I purchased a publication at a Limited race on Gr… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Seattle was the place to be in the fifties if one was a hydroplane fan. Those were the days when the Gold Cup race location was determined by the yacht… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian Unlimited hydroplane racing has been a defining part of my life for most of my life. It started as a childhood preoccupation that became an adult avoca… View »
Biscayne's waters shivered to the opening of the unlimited-hydroplane racing season as a new winged marauder called 'Pay 'n Pak' awed and eventually overcame Bill Muncey, the suffering 1972 champion.… View »
By Fred Farley - Unlimited Hydroplane Historian For ten years, the resort town of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, played host to “Water Racing’s Greatest Show”--the Unlimited hydroplanes--starting in 1958. Loc… View »
In the '60s, Seattle was in love with roostertails; then a series of deaths helped cool the ardor. By Bill Kossen Reprinted from The Seattle Times, August 4, 1991. On the 'darkest day in boat racing,… View »