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Please come to the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum's Third annual Wine Tasting party, Saturday evening Feb 2nd at 7 PMTake your time to examine the greatest collection of Gold Cup winning Hydroplanes in the world while relaxing to live music and enjoying food and wines from across Washington State The cost is $25 and will include ten "tasting" tickets.(Additional tickets will be available at the event.)See More

This group is dedicated to all the former drivers and anybody who likes the first successful Miss Bardahl. Photo of Billy Schumacher driving at Seafair 200 by Jon Osterberg.

Please join us Saturday September 29th at 5 PM for "Roostertails and Ales", the first ever Beer Tasting at the Hydro Museum. $10 gets you an evening of beer, bratwurst, soft pretzels and live music. Eight local NW microbreweries will be offering samples of their finest brews. Brought to you in part by Columbia Distributors.$10 gets you five tickets and admission to the event. Once you are in you can trade your tickets for food and beer.1 ticket gets you a beer sample2 tickets gets you a soft…See More

 Unlimited Hydroplane Legend Chip Hanauer will tell where "all the bodies are buried" in this exclusive, tell all lecture and webcast on Saturday April 21st. Chip will "spill the beans" on the funny, wacky and unbelievable things that happened in his 30 year career driving race boats.  The show starts at 2 PM PST and is free to dues paying Museum Members and costs $5 for nonmembers. It will be broadcast live on our website for out of town members who can't get to Seattle. Don't miss it!…See More

Great food, great wine and great boats! A running exhibition of vintage unlimiteds and limited inboards along with beautify classic runabouts in the heart of the Washington's wine country at the hight of the wine crush.

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