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Pushing the hydroplane envelope didn't always work.
Reprinted from Hemmings Motor News, February, 2013.
The world of Unlimited hydroplane racing is extremely dangerous stuff under even the best circumstances. The drivers who race hydros make Sprint car jockeys and those souls who strap into Top Fuel projectiles look like geeks. The principle of these wildly overpowered racing boats is to balance them atop planes at full speed, limiting their contact…
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Engineer Ted Jones harbored a lot of creative (even radical) ideas about boat design, which spawned one of Seattle’s most storied traditions — unlimited hydroplane racing.
By David Eskenazi and Steve Rudman
Every summer thousands of Puget Sounders flock to Lake Washington to witness — from the shore, rowboats, yachts, cruisers, tug…
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Hello Hydro Fans,
Before there was RC, you raced your boat on a 52-foot tether cable, one at a time.
The competition was against the clock-Model Tether Boat Racing.
These boats and their gas and steam engines were all homemade, scratch built
by the talented toolmakers and machinists of the 1924-1955 era.
Here in Detroit known as the Detroit Model Power Boat Club, we were the epi-center for
Tether Boat Racing at Detroit's Water Works…
ContinueAdded by kent Lund on February 10, 2015 at 9:09am — 2 Comments
Reprinted from www.enginebuildermag.com.
There are three amazing numbers that would seem to make this giant powerplant pretty much incomparable with motorsports use. The numbers are 12, 1710, and 1600. Certainly a little explanation is needed.
First, there’s the 1710 number, which is part of its official name the V-1710 engine which actually is the number of cubic inches it displaces. The 12 is the number of cylinders,…
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