This photo courtesy of Michelle Nabozny and her Dad, Doug Maykovich. She writes: “I don’t know why Dad had this picture, but I think I see him in the pic, but in 1960 he would have been almost 16”. Her father was a premier engine builder so she is wondering if …
Drew Herrick sent us 33 New Martinsville Regatta Race Program covers to add to our “Official Race Programs” book (we have almost 325 covers now). I really like this first one he sent from 1953. The Y-333 SHOOTING STAR is a cool boat, cool name, and even his helmet is …
This article appeared in Engine Builder magazine (Dec 2014)
1966 New Martinsville Regatta added to our RACE PROGRAM section
We added 13 newspaper articles from the 1979 Nationals to our “Newspaper Articles From The Past – DAYTON – 1962 through 1999“. This completes this section of all the newspaper articles that Phil Kunz collected over the years.
There is a total of 11 newsprint articles from the 1980 NATIONALS in Dayton posted. Visit our media page and scroll down to the “1980 Dayton” articles, then click on each small pic to read the entire newspaper article.
“Eastern Competition Boat Builders” was an article written by Jack Sweeney for HOT BOAT QUARTERLY in 1966. If you are on a desktop computer – the best way to view this book is to click the “toggle fullscreen” button, then use your arrow buttons on the keyboard to advance to …
I received this email from Sean 10/1/2023: Hello sir and good day. My name is Sean Zeiders. I am an auctioneer in PA and I had the absolute pleasure of spending a little over a year going through and selling the Lloyd estate after the unfortunate passing of Mike in …
I saw your website and want to share a photo I have of my dad’s hydroplane from 1950-1955. My dad was Dr. Ralph Beare of Celina, Ohio and our driver was Larry Kruger of Neptune, Ohio. Larry died from a swimming accident in August of 1955 at a race in …
It’s been about 7 months since I last updated this Directory (sorry been busy) and we now have another dozen folks who had submitted some tidbits of info on their past racing exploits. We have almost have 200 entries now! A few of the new entries were siblings of former …
