Ron Jones Sr. once estimated he built more than 500 boats in many different classes of racing. But it was the more than two dozen unlimited hydroplanes he constructed — some that helped usher in the ...

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 ...

MILL CREEK — Peter Olesen is squeezed into the tiny cockpit of an 11-foot racing boat that sits on a trailer in front of his Mill Creek home, fiddling with the steering wheel. He, his father, Steve, ...

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 ...

KENT, Wash. – Back when he was a kid growing up in Seattle, David Williams knew well the thrill of hydroplane racing. Back then, in the summers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was the sport in ...

Ed Karelsen, who built championship race boats in all classes and in the unlimited hydroplane class in particular, died Saturday in Edmonds, H1 Unlimited said. He was 86. Karelsen’s Miss Bardahl and ...

Michigan powerboat administrator Mark Weber knows the sport from in and out of the cockpit. A champion hydroplane racer in 5 Liter to Unlimited Hydroplanes, Weber has also been the longtime race ...

SEATTLE – On Friday, the 70th annual Seafair Festival turned up a notch with the start of the hydroplane races. “It’s like quintessential Seattle summers. It just a fun time for everyone, what ...

The U-21 Miss Lakeridge Paving unlimited hydroplane being driven by Brian Perkins zips past Kennewick shoreline and racing fans on the way back to the pits Friday following the first test run of the ...