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| Dec 26 | Santa didn't bring you what
you wanted for Christmas?
Another hydro listed in the For Sale section. |
| Dec 25 | Merry Christmas!
Agitator updated with 11 photos on the restoration. |
| Dec 20 | Miss Shepherd added to the
Raceboats
Where are they now?
The only surviving French hydroplane in the featured hydroplanes section. |
| Dec 17 | Dayton Testing added to the 2002 Schedule of Events. |
| Dec 11 | Seven new photos and an
update, are chronicled in the next chapter, on the rebuild
of Jack Hine's Miss Peg.
Alan & Lisa send in a Holiday greeting for us all. |
| Dec 10 | A pictorial story captured
on film by Phil Kunz, is uploaded to Art Asbury's web site. This story
portray's a classic duel between a cabover and a conventional hydro which
features the famous hydro jockeys, Tom D'Eath and Art Asbury battling it
out in the Free-For-All race at Valleyfield
in 1978.
A Ted Jones designed unlimited class hydroplane added in the For Sale section. |
| Dec 9 | Two more vintage regattas added to the 2002 Schedule of Events. |
| Nov 25 | Wanton Dutchess S-811, a 145 class Farmer hydro, added to the For Sale page. |
| Nov 22 | Canadiana
Grand Prix has been added to the restoration section. This hull is
also for sale.
80 Racing hulls now registered in the directory. I have finally broken this page down by classes, so if you have a hull registered and I put your hull in the wrong class, please let me know. |
| Nov 15 | A new For
Sale/Wanted - Hydros, Parts, and Misc page has been added. If you have
something to sell or need a part, send me an email and I will list it on
this web page.
Added a photo page for a F-class hydroplane in the vintage owners directory that formally raced under the name Ms. Right and Coffee Break F8. The owner will soon be starting restoration and is looking for information on the hull's history first. Take a look and see if you can help him out. |
| Nov 8 | There's only 3 so far, but time to start thinking about the 2002 Schedule of Events. |
| Nov 5 | A model of Tempo VI is featured in the vintage racing model section. |
| Oct 28 | Oliver Guerin of France updates the restoration progress he has made on his 1967 Bluefin built, hydroplane with 4 photos showing removal of all the old plywood skins that were attached to this English racing hull. |
| Oct 19 | A story added in the Featured Articles section about building your hydro shop. |
| Oct 15 | Alan Radue updates the restoration progress he has made on Agitator with 7 more photos. 72 Racing hulls now registered in the directory. |
| Oct 14 | Finding new information to update your biography on your old racing hull will be a never ending process. Two new photos and additional information added to the history section for both, Agitator and Moonshine Baby. |
| Oct 7 | Two pages added on the Art
Asbury web site. Dares
Death and Life
Jacket.
I fixed the Registration page. We have 69 racing hulls registered by their owners. If you haven't done so, please register your racing hull to this directory. By doing so, you will be included for special announcements by this web site for the owners only. |
| Oct 4 | Another hydro restoration to follow as it is brought back to life! This one is a vintage 1967 "Bluefin" hydroplane that has been located in England and is moved to France for restoration. Now that summer is over, I'm sure we'll start seeing more updates as these owners continue their restoration efforts. Best of luck to you owners with your upcoming vintage bench racing season! |
| Oct 2 | Have you noticed that those
annoying ads are gone! There are lots of other nice changes that will also
be added including a new url which will be easy for everyone to remember:
www.vintagehydroplanes.com
Should be ready in the next few days.
I am also going to be adding a Hydroplanes and Parts/Misc. for Sale section............. so check out those garages and if you have parts laying around, put 'em up for sale and help somebody with their restoration efforts and make room at the same time. Send me your lists (and photos if you can get one) of your parts, and I'll start this asap. |
| Oct 1 | I got sick of the runaround with the old message
board. So.....I found a new one. I like this forum and visit it regularly
with other sites that I frequent. Here it is: Message
Board!!
The old message board is still available for reference and can be found as the last link on the home page. |
| Sept 28 | The Message Board has been getting alot of "sorry, the servers are busy" when you try to post a message. I will be scrapping this board soon. |
| Sept 22 | I want to thank everybody for the emails that
I have received with all the excellent suggestions for additional web site
space......I was hesitant about even asking what I should do, but I'm glad
I did. I will let you know what will happen soon, but one thing for sure
is that this site will stay active and will keep expanding with everybody's
help!
I am also going to keep building sister websites to keep the information flowing about the Vintage Hydroplanes & Raceboats. If you have an idea, please send me an email. In the meantime, please keep sending in information and photos for this website. There still is a couple of regatta's we don't have any reports on. I am working on a writing a technical article and would appreciate some of you other "closet" authors to get those fingers tapping and pound out some articles for publication on this web site. |
| Sept 15 | We are faced with a dilema for the site and would
like some ideas. I have used up all the free space allowed to me for this
web site. The way I'm looking at it, I have 3 options:
1. I can move the site to another server (which I would rather not do, lots of work) 2. I can start paying for additional space. I don't mind donating all the time to maintain the site, but having to open my checkbook every month on top of all my time, is going to make me feel is it worth even having the site. 3. Keep removing older pages to make space for the newer pages. This to me will greatly limit the growth of the site and additional featured hulls. I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY IDEAS YOU HAVE!!! |
| Sept 14 | Another feature article titled The
Story of the rescue of an old inboard Hydroplane.
A note from this site's Webmaster. |
| Sept 13 | Five Photos added to the R/C Fleet. |
| Sept 10 | Cypress Gardens Regatta cancelled. 2001 Schedule of Events. |
| Aug 22 | I cleaned up the Links
page and added a bunch of links that may be helpful in your vintage raceboat's
restoration.
If you are registering your hull with the directory, the link to Submit the information is not working. Please email me with that information until I fiqure out how to fix this dilema. |
| Aug 20 | We have another sister web site.
It is devoted to Art Asbury.
Read all about the career of Canada's fastest hydroplane pilot. Great reading
highlighted by awards, speed records, historical notes and to top it all
off, tons of racing photos from the Asbury's family Photo Album!!!
A Big Thanks to Charlotte! Also contributions from Eloise, Wendy, and Sharon. Be sure to check this one out! A page added for the ACBS Red Wing, MN show. |
| Aug 19 | A page added for the Hampton Cup vintage hydroplanes that attended the show. |
| Aug 17 | A story posted on Henry Lauterbach driving the Wa Wa again. |
| Aug 16 | Celina Governor's Cup Regatta just added vintage to the Schedule of Events. It's next weekend 25-26. Click on the event name when the page loads for more info. |
| Aug 8 | The Gun Shy Trophy Story,
a neat little story on how a lost trophy found it's place back to were
it should be, written by Jack Hines.
The Benefits of Flipping your Hydro, an information packed and humorous featured article written by Alan Radue on flipping your hydroplane over. Remember, if you have a story or article you would like to share with others, please send it in. It would be great to see some tech articles, raceboat stories, maybe a experience at a race, or maybe just getting to the race......whatever you can think of!!! |
| Aug 5 | The rebuild of my hydro, Moonshine Baby is now completed. It has been almost 1 year since I last updated my rebuild on this hull. I have added the final 3 pages, detailing the final steps of this restoration. Thanks to everybody who took time out of their day to help with advice and encouragement. |
| July 25 | Eight photos and a report by Phil Kunz from vintage
raceboats he saw at the races in New
Martinsville, W.VA, Madison, IN, and Detroit, Michigan.
Seven photos and more restoration info on Miss Close Shave II. |
| July 24 | I don't know how or why, but the Message Board
is back!!!
Nine photos and a report from Bill DeGlopper on the vintage hulls that showed at the ACBS boat show in Toronto. Seven photo links added on some of the racing hulls from the owners in the Directory of Vintage Raceboats. Owners, please forward me a photo if you haven't already done so. |
| July 23 | I just received a response from the server as
too what happened to our messageboard.
I'll post it here: "Hello, and thank you for writing to Yahoo! Customer Care. Yahoo! GeoCities no longer offers Yahoo! User Message Boards" Thanks for the notice......I'll see what I can do to replace the messageboard...........Phil |
| July 20 | The messageboard is down and I have not been able
to get an answer why???? Arrrrgh!
I have lots of stuff to add to the site.......but finishing up the "Baby" is my first priority right now....also another "sister" website is being put together..................really cool stuff! stay tuned and keep sending in the hydro info!!!! |
| July 7 | Five photos added to Hydromania 20001. |
| June 28 | Three photos added to the restoration of Agitator.
64 hulls now registered in The Directory of Vintage Raceboats. |
| June 26 | Four photos, along with a report, from Hydromania 2001. |
| June 21 | Four new photos, along with even earlier history, have been uncovered on Agitator. |
| June 10 | Twelve photos added to the restoration of Miss Close Shave II. |
| June 5 | Another hydroplane added to the Raceboats
- Where are they now?
Cypress Gardens added to the 2001 Schedule of Events. |
| June 2 | Two photos of the Obsession added to the R/C Fleet. |
| May 30 | A flyer for the Ohio River Show June 14-17 has been added. |
| May 26 | Six photos added to the Miss Peg rebuild part 2. |
| May 21 | One photo added to Agitator History and 3 photos added to Agitator Restoration |
| May 20 | Four photos added on the R/C Fleet. |
| May 19 | Hydro Test Run
in Marietta, Ohio added to the 2001 Schedule
of Events.
More infomation added on the R/C Fleet. |
| May 16 | A neat R/C Fleet of raceboats. |
| May 8 | 2001 Dayton Testing report and photos. |
| May 7 | The Hampton Cup
Regatta has been added to the 2001 Events
Schedule.
All vintage raceboats are invited to attend. |
| May 6 | Ever heard of a vintage hydroplane named Dixie CS-1 or a hydro that raced under the names Poor Excuse N-91and Ricochet Baby II N-111? These 2 photos sent in by Phil Kunz, have been posted in the Raceboats-Where are they now section. |
| May 5 | By reading the messageboard, it sounds like Dayton
Testing last week was a great time for all who attended.
The Directory has 60 hulls now registered. I have also added a link to a photo for each hull that I have. If you are registered and you do not have a photo posted, please send me one and I'll post it up. If you do not own a scanner, you may mail me a photo and I'll scan it for you and send it back. Just drop me an email and I'll give you my address. (A picture is worth a 1,000 words). The Agitator has posted 2 photos of a model made of this hull on its history page. |
| April 13 | I just finished reading a complimentary newsletter
called Propwash from The Dayton Motor Boat Racing Association.
Very interesting reading with 4 stories on vintage hydroplanes, current
hydro information, race schedules, classifieds, etc. If you
can't get enough hyroplane news, you should consider joining this fine organization. Dues are only $15.00/year. They keep the spirit of hydroplaning alive through their newsletter and events. I can't believe that Dayton Testing on April 28 & 29 is so close. Contact Jack Hines or Phil Kunz if you would like to attend this event or would like to join the association. New layout for the Directory of Vintage Owners. Fifty-Six raceboats now entered. |
| April 5 | Miss Close Shave
has 3 new photos and more updates on the restoration efforts.
We also added a page on a 1960's Ron Jones hydro from the northwest area of the US, and information is needed before the restoration efforts begin. Take a look and see if you know of any history on this hydroplane. |
| Mar 25 | Happy Anniversary to this site. It was one year
ago that I uploaded the files for the start of this website. A huge Thank
You goes to everybody who sent in photos of the raceboats, stories,
and features. I never thought the response who be so good. I hope this
year we can get even more contributions. Remember, this site needs
your help with photos, features, stories, and communications to keep growing.
Miss Peg Restoration Part 2 has a new photo. Moonshine Baby History has a program cover added from 1976. The Directory of Owners has just had its 50th owner register. If we can get more owners to register, I will break this page down to class sizes. |
| Mar 11 | Agitator history
page has been updated with even more owners and photos that have been found
for this Lloyd-built, E-class hydroplane.
Also, the restoration of this hull has updated with many new photos and info. Plus, 2 more hydroplanes have been added to the Vintage Hydroplanes-Where are they now? page |
| Feb 19 | The Wild One has a page in the hydroplanes restoration section. |
| Feb 18 | Came To Play A-150
in the hydroplanes as they are today section.
A photo from Phil Kunz of the stolen hydroplane in Toronto has been added. |
| Feb 17 | The directory is up to 48 raceboats. Drop the owner an email if you know anything about his racing hull. If you haven't registered, please do so. There always seems to be people looking to find out what happened to vintage raceboats. This page is usually a first stop in that endeavor. |
| Feb 13 | Well, after lots of research and hard work, I
am proud to announce the new addition to the web site. In fact, it started
to get too big, so I moved it to its own web site. This site features the
photographic work of our good friend and racing historian, Phil Kunz. On
this site, you can read about vintage and current inboard hydroplanes and
flatbottoms, the different classes for both divisions, and a 5 part feature
on hydroplane builders. We hope you find the new site enjoyable and informative.
Phil Kunz Photography |
| Feb 10 | The NSW Hydroplane Club has launched their website. Our friend, Nathan (Miss September) Mills is the website editor and has put together a very informative and unique site on Australian hydroplanes new & old. |
| Jan 30 | Miss Peg has 5 new photos showing the latest progress on this hydroplane. |
| Jan 27 | Miss Close Shave II has a page in the yesterday section. |
| Jan 25 | A few more raceboats have registered their hulls to the directory (43 now) |
| Jan 14 | A "mystery" hydroplane featured in the restoration section |
| Jan 12 | Hydromania 2001 added to the 2001 Schedule of Events |
| Jan 3 | Stover Hire's 56-H
has a page in the vintage raceboat section.
The Directory now has 35 raceboats registered. |
| Jan 1 | I would like to wish a Happy New Year to everybody!
We are looking at expanding this website this year. Keep your contributions coming! |