Jimmy Shane hoists the Seafair Cup after his hydroplane victory today. (GeekWire photo/Kevin Lisota) Jimmy Shane piloted the Miss HomeStreet hydroplane to a victory in the Seafair Cup today in Seattle ...
KAWKAWLIN TOWNSHIP, MI-- Inside Jon Staudacher's workshop there sits a shiny red grand prix hydroplane that makes the boats of Bay City's River Roar look like mosquitos. Staudacher isn't new to ...
Murdo Cameron has something to tell the sport of hydroplane racing: Lighten up already. The retired airline pilot, an innovator in the field of advanced composite materials, says he can transform how ...
THE UNLIMITED HYDROS won’t race on Lake Washington next weekend. Perhaps some people won’t care, but for many, especially those who lived here in the 1950s and ’60s, the lack of a Seafair race will ...
You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Ervins Bubier, 39, of Perry was driving his truck south on Route 27 on ...
CHESTER — Larry Lauterbach is going to have to make some room on his office wall for his latest triumph. The Chester hydroplane builder, who already has several certificates and plaques honoring his ...
At the Active Auto Care shop in Auburn the guys don’t just talk engines, they also talk hydroplane racing. They’re locals, you know? Rich Matkin, 61, Newport High class of 1971, who went to his first ...
SEATTLE — A Boeing 787 is ready for a test flight this Seafair weekend. Well, sort of anyway. When hydroplanes hit the water Friday to start the weekend of racing that will culminate in Sunday’s ...
Thunder on the Ohio, one leg of the APBA Unlimited Hydroplane circuit, was held on the Evansville Riverfront from 1979 to 2009 -- 31 consecutive years. Attendance for the boat races was recorded at a ...