Before the Classic era of the wood hydroplanes, the Golden years sported the beautiful "gentlemen" raceboats. 
These wood planked runabouts and the many traditional & non-traditional styles of these eloquent hulls graced the waters 
with brute strength from pre and post WW2 motors.

Geoffrey Magnuson's replica of Gar Wood's Miss America VII. Twin Rolls Royce V-12 engines.
 
 
 

Joe & Marie Fraunheim's 1937 Ventor built hull. 
Guy Lombardo owned and drove Tempo VI G-13 to a Gold Cup win in 1946.
 
 
 

Mark Howard's Scotty G-17
 
 
 
 

Jack Hines sent in the following information on this classic: "This old hydroplane was called Frankies Boy.  It used to be owned by the Wermes brothers and Bill MacTague of Cincinnati, Ohio. Several years ago, we went down and looked at it. Framing was made out of oak, probably the only reason it lasted so long. Ran around here in the late 40's and 50's. I think it ran in the 225 class/division 1. The hydro was powered by a flathead 6 cyl motor, GMC I think. Interesting part of this boat is the hand hammered aluminum cowlings, ala sprint car and midget construction of the day. Very high quality work on the cowlings.The boat had been purchased by someone in Florida and then went to Clayton. I had seen the boat listed in box results in old racing programs from this area."