Click image and when that opens, click full screen and sit back & relax.
If the pics are going by to slow for ya (still a racer, huh?), you can hover your mouse to the right side and click on the forward (>) button and you can move on to the next program cover.
Note – these pics in the slideshow are only the Program Covers taken from our “Official Race Programs” webpage. I did include a few posters, but I didn’t include any pics from the many newspaper and magazine articles, etc.
I also added about 18 more program covers recently into our database, with thanks to Tom & Dawn Alligood for scanning /emailing their program covers in.
Keep ’em coming folks. Some of these covers really were somebody’s work of art and I enjoy looking through them. Send in ’em and let’s add them to our database, so everyone can see them.
Miss DeSoto II – driver inquiry
Sally Shaffer writes in and wants to know if anybody knows anything on this boat and her father’s career driving it for Buddy Byers.
Click on Sally’s name to send her an email or reply here.
Note from the Editors:
Al Shaffer is driving Miss DeSoto II, H-34– a Rich Hallett built hull.
The hydro in the background is more than likely – Miss DeSoto III, H-33 – a Henry Lauterbach built hull (and a very early one at that).
Race site is Columbus, Ohio on the Scioto River.
If anyone has a photo of the very first, Miss DeSoto, we certainly would like to see it.
Sonny’s Toy 1978
Owner/Driver was Brent Nixon of Summerstown, Ontario.
Ron Jones 280 hydroplane
(also featured this pic in February’s monthly calendar)
George Babcock Interview – 1971
Interview with George Babcock by Eileen Crimmon – Powerboat Magazine, August 1971
Taggart Boat Collection – Mecum Auction Results 11-Jan-2018
Haggerty Insurance did a story on this collection as well.
Monthly Calendars
Happy New Year!
Monthly calendars will once again be available for 2018. I only have January’s done for now. If the APBA V&H folks send me a schedule of their 2018 events this year, I will mark those dates on the calendars.
Ken Warby
Ken Warby receives from Dan and Debbie Joseph THE HENRY E. LAUTERBACH EXCELLENCE IN POWER BOAT RACING award last September at the Wheeling Vintage Race Boat Regatta.
Ken Warby has held the World Water Speed record since 1978 when he drove his Spirit of Australia boat to 317 mph. That’s 40 years (in 2018) that he has held that record!
Ken Warby brought the World Record Speed trophy. There is some impressive names etched into that trophy.
So great that everyone got to see this historical trophy.
The Spirit of American Boat Racing – The Jersey Speed Skiff
The Spirit of American Boat Racing – The Jersey Speed Skiff is a story of how the returning veterans of WWII, the every day guy, took the boat racing world by storm and away from the rich and famous that held it for many years. There are many old pictures included in the book from the 1920s thru the late 1980s.
The price is $20.
John D Brighton Sr.
720 D High Point Blvd.
Fort Pierce, Florida 34982
The book is also being distributed through
Jack Lowe (732) 576-5015
#1 Ralph St., Sea Chest Condominium
Highlands, New Jersey 07732