• The NPBA schedule has been added & Scioto Riverfest dates have changed in the 2004 Schedule of Events.
• Phil Kunz has added the USA National Champions for the GP class to his website and has updated the USA National Champions list for F/NM class, J/GNH class, H class.

• Phil Kunz has added the USA National Champions for the L class to his website and has updated the USA National Champions list for T class, Y class, A Class, N Class, E Class & S class. Remember that his new book has the USA Nationals Champions list, as well as USA National High Points and USA Speed Records.

• Bruce Ward has become a new sponsor to our website in memory to Don Ward.
• Porky/Hummbug L-7 is remembered by Rob Felton, who's father piloted this hydroplane.
• A "mystery" hydroplane owned by Dave Boxrud has a restoration page. History of hull is being researched.
• Phil Kunz is taking orders for his new book - Prop Riders 60 Years of Racing Hydroplanes.

• Country Stoves E-76, a Ed Karelesen hull, owned by Doug Woodward has a restoration page started.
• Barracuda F-77 has a bunch of photos added to the restoration page as Tim Settle continues his work.
• Ms. Leanne restoration webpage has new photos added as Alan Radue rebuilds his 265 Chevy motor.

• Honeybear E-116, 1961 National Champion, has been found and is being restored.

• A new sponsor, Kevin Klosterman, has joined our cause to keep our website thriving.
• Roar on the River & Lake George, plus a vintage link for Detroit, added (earlier this week) to the 2004 Schedule of Events.

• New Wanted Poster & new photo on the home page on Phil Kunz's website.
• Art Asbury's obituary to his website.

• Buffalo and New Hampshire reports by Bill DeGlopper, with photos by Phil Kunz added to the past events.
• A Media and Specification Sheet is now being added to each entry in the Owner's Directory. We currently have 129 race boats registered. If your race boat is registered, please submit your sheet by clicking here. This sheet is very detailed and we would like you to complete the form with as much information as possible. I have 4 completed already - 7 are waiting in my email box to add - and then we need 118 to go. 
• D, E, F Service Runabouts Speed Records posted. Thanks to Bob Jones for researching.

• A new sponsor, Keith Kossow, has joined our cause to keep our website thriving.
• 2004 Schedule of Events is posted.
• "Rookie" A Name I'm proud to Wear - by Joe Johnson added in the Story's section.
• Happy Buddha E-207 has one historical photo from 1969 added to its webpage.

• Alan Radue's recently acquired Lloyd, Ms. Leanne restoration webpage added to the boats section.
• Happy Buddha E-207 has 5 photos added to his webpage.

• A photo of Ron Taylor's Happy Buddha E-207 first time in the water since restoration at New Hampshire Vintage Race Boat Regatta added to his webpage.
• A photo of Jack Engelhardt's Yellow Streak at The Gold Cup added to his entry in the owner's directory.

• 33rd Annual National Sweepstakes Regatta - 1972 Red Bank, NJ added to regattas past section.

• We have 6 new sponsors and 2 renewing sponsors, stepping forward to help our cause:
• Jeff "Nemo" Buckley - BOATHOUSE MARINEWORKS - our website's first sponsor! If you remember, he started all this by "buying off" those pesky pop-up ad's on the messageboard. 
• Bill Fisk - Great shot of Bill driving the Irishman at Buffalo 2003. Is there a vintage event he and Judy and one of his rides doesn't attend? A true gentleman to the sport.
• Alan Radue - Alan & Radue Pit Crew have the Agitator and this website fully supported. Who's that carrying the load?....Alan is also the APBA "media guy" for vintage & historic.
• Randy Wold - Randy and his vintage & current Cumon Baby. Thirty one years later and he retires rom his day job and starts racing again! A true hero....
• Bill John - Bill & Donnie of THE VINTAGE RACE BOAT SHOP and the beautiful Obsession! Two ambassadors that put on alot of mileage to promote the vintage cause at many an events and Bill also puts in many hours as webmaster at The New Hampshire Boat Museum. My favorite stop on the www.
• Steve Ladino - The absolutely stunning Miss Sapphire has renewed his committment to help. I think we need to get a new photo of Steve and MS running on the water. Somebody send me one.
• TOF Racing - Fred Schearer, Phil Mitchell & Bob Leckner - Fred's boat, Avenger restoration is looking so nice. I'm sure, their first of many vintage hydroplanes these former racers will have in the stable.
• Jerry Field - Former restorer and owner of Happy Buddah. Jerry will have a card as soon as he sends me a background image to use.....hint...hint
•  I can't thank these fine people enough......I am using some of this $$ to hire my daughter, Cassandra, to help me with more documenting......below is her 2nd scanning - html fomatting for the site.......we continue to grow the site.
• 1976 Winter Nationals East added to regattas past section.

• 1978 Grand Prix Nationals added to regattas past section.

• Barracuda restoration page added.
• Avenger - Historical page started. (Text to follow).
• Hot Ticket JS-25 - added 2 photos from the BLC event 2003.

• A photographic report by Mark Sharley on the Sept 6-7, 2003 Banks Lake, Washington race of the NBRA added to the past events.

• Stormalong JS-88  - webpage added
• Hot Ticket JS-25 - added 4 photos from The Gold Cup - Deetroiiit 2003.

• 2003 Chalon Sur Saone - World Championships featuring European Vintage Hydroplanes by Olivier Guerin added to the past events.
• The last Fred Wickins early style hydroplane known to be in existance, is being restored as it was, when it raced over 55 years ago by Tim Settle. The hydro campaigned as Barracuda.
• Two new sponsors have come aboard in the last few weeks, David Kancianich and Tim Settle. David restored Annies Dodge 2, H-25 and recently relaunched her and Tim Settle has started restoration on Barracuda F-77. I can't thank my sponsors enough!! They keep me motivated to keep this website up and running!!

• David Kancianich's Annies Dodge 2 gets back in the water after 31 years.

• Curtis Estes career is highlighted in the raceboat drivers section of the boats page.

• A class hull from Ohio, with no history found yet, is being restored by Jim Turner.

• A second page for 2003 Detroit River - River Cruise.

• Two pages from Phil Kunz added into the past events section which are a 6th page on 2003 Madison and the first page for 2003 Detroit River - River Cruise.
• Lake Pateros Regatta added to the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.
• Two more photos added to Boats owned & driven by Bill Burgess.

• A couple of pre-WWII boats, Carenaught & Wilgold III added to the boats historical section.
• New Wanted Poster on Phil Kunz's website. 

• A historical overview titled, "Speed Records for Motor Boats" by Bob Foley added to the opening page in the APBA Speed Records section.
• 2003 West Coast Boat Racer's Reunion by Bob Foley added in the past events section.
• Link posted for Celina Governor's Cup Regatta on the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events

• Bill DeGlopper's Hot Ticket JS-25 has 2 new photos added to its webpage.
• Vintage Mailbox has a short story by Randy Wold. A fellow vintage hydro owner, Randy "retired" this spring, purchased a current raceboat and returns to racing after 31 years.

• Link posted for the APBA Gold Cup on the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.

• Madison 2003 added in the past events section. 

• Promotional decals for this website are now available for sale.
• Four photos added to Boats owned & driven by Bill Burgess.

• New Wanted Poster on Phil Kunz's website.
• 1958 Southland Regatta added to the regattas past section.
• Vintage Unlimited Testing 2003 added to the stories section.
• Tom D'Eath's Z-Z-Zip goes into the water at Columbus, Ohio for the first time in 30 years.
• Bob Moore's Hi-Q has 3 photos added from 
• Joe Gimbrone tribute page has a photo added.

• 2003 New Martinsville pictorial report in the past events section.

• Bud Griffon makes her restored debut on Lake Washington, photos by Mark Sharley
• 1967 English built "Mystery" Hydro has 2 pixs posted from her 2nd maiden voyage.

• The Discovery of the Miss DeSoto added to the stories and the boats sections.

• 1974 Southland Sweepstakes Regatta race program added to regattas past section.
• Another photo added to boats owned and driven by Bill Burgess.

• A note from Tom D'Eath.
• Hi-Q has 2 pixs posted from Lake Hopatcong Inboard Regatta.
• 1967 Orange Bowl as reported by Boating News posted in the Regattas Past.

• Another raceboat (Karelson hull) acquired by Todd Bohnet, One More Time F-17.
• Sunshine Baby has 3 photos added of the 1957 National Championship Trophy.

• Miss Miami restoration nearly completed.

• Link posted for Quake on the Lake on the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.
• 2003 Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey by Art Smith added to the Past Vintage Regattas.

• 1980 National Inboard Championships added to Regattas Past section.

• A new event added and link posted for 2004 V&H Nationals (cancelled) on the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.
• 117 raceboats now registered in the Owners Directory. I did some "spring cleaning" in there. Owners, please contact me if anything in your entry needs to be updated.

• Link posted for Columbus on the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.

• Links posted for Detroit and New Martinsville on the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.
• Hydrokarts article from 1964 added to the stories section.

• Joe Gimbrone tribute webpage added to the boats section.
• Sizzler SK Racing Runabout added to the boats section.
• Crazy Thing SK Racing Runabout added to the boats section.
• Long Gone H-007 added to the Where are they Now? section.

• 1963 National Inboard Championships added to Regattas Past section.
• A photo of the original Annies Dodge I, added to Annies Dodge II biographical page.
• A bunch of neat photos displaying some historical items of note by Randy Wold, titled Pacific Northwest racing added to the stories section.
• Road Runner Y-88 webpage added to the boats present webpage.
• With donations from our sponsors, I have doubled the storage space for this website. Send them all an email and let them know how great they are!

• New Wanted Poster on the Phil Kunz website.

• Petti's Pet webpage added to the restoration category in the boats.
• Sunshine Baby III has 2 photos added from the 1955 Southland Race Program.
• Apache & Gambler II, E-288 & Last Blast II, E-227 added to the where are they now? section.

• Tom D'Eath's Z-Z-Zip added to the restoration section.
• Z-Z-Zip biography added to the boats.
• Miss Miami and Black Magic restoration pages updated.

• Lake Hopatchong added to the 2003 Vintage Schedule.

• Vintage collectible pins are now available to for sale.
• Raceboats owned & driven by Bill Burgess added to the boats section.
• A photo of Lauterbach driving the F-247 added to the '53-'58 Wa Wa too page.

• Miss Bee Bee added in the inquiry section, Where are they Now?
• New Martinsville added to the 2003 schedule.

• The New Probationary 280 CU IN Stock Hydro Class by Lou Eppel. This article is from BOAT SPORT magazine, May 1956, and reproduced in the Technical Articles section. And a short article on Don Wilson from the same magazine added in the stories section.

• 1963 Orange Bowl Regatta in the Regattas Past section.

• An outboard hydro in the For Sale section.

• May, July, August, and September 1994. From the Vintage Notebook are added to Tom D'Eath's Propeller articles. We think we have 'em all on the website now. Thanks Judy!

• Curious how a regatta was run way back when? I posted the complete Operations Manual for the Southland Sweepstakes Regatta (circa 1978?) in the Regattas Past section.

• Attention Owners - now is the time to get your orders in for your buttons to be made.
• New Wanted Poster on Phil Kunz's website.

• Guidelines for New Vintage Race Participants posted in the APBA Vintage & Historic section.
• Australian's First Jet Hydroplane story authored by Graeme Morley, added to our Stories.

• 3 Events added to the 2003 Vintage Schedule of Events.

• A photo added of E-180 Wish Again in the inquiry section, Where are they Now?

• TVH welcomes a new sponsor, David A. Rogers from Rogers Marine on the Home page.
• One race program added to Regatta Past section - 1965 Nationals.
• And after reading the 1965 Nationals official program, I posted the article on  this race as reported from Boating News.

• Keith Brayer's has 4 new photos posted on the rebuild of the Yankee Doodle hull.

• New information from the 2003 National meeting of the Vintage & Historic Division added in the APBA Vintage & Historic section: The Vintage Hydroplanes has been officially dubbed, "The Official website for the APBA Vintage & Historic Division". 
• The Bylaws of the V&H division have been ammended. 
• And our chairman, Tom D'Eath, has appointed a V&H Board of Members.
• Third Generation photo added to the inquiry in the Where are they now? section.
• A conventional hydro for sale.
• Many hydro parts added to the Parts for sale section.

• New Wanted poster is posted on Phil Kunz Photography.
• Jim Granitzki's Ulua Kai Y-101 has 5 restoration photos added to its webpage.
• Sunshine Baby IV H-57 has 2 restoration photos added to its webpage.
• Tiger, Country Boy, and Bandit have Old For Sale Ads from Long Ago added.
• 111 Raceboats registered in the Owner's Directory.

• The original Rudy Toot and the boats that followed featured in the boat's historical section.
• Ulua Kai featured in the boat's historical section. This boat is found and restoration started.
• Two hydros for sale. Conventional and cabover.

• Wa Wa TOO F-247 sequence of photos showing the blow over at Norristown, PA kilo runs.
• Miss Bardahl and a Lauterbach model built by Jim Osborne are featured in the modelsection.

• Mom's Nightmare N-64  & Wish Again E-180 & Lancer E-373 added to the Where are they Now?section.
• Two hydros for sale.

• I'm proud to recognize our new sponsors on the home page. This website takes all our efforts and I appreciate their generosity for helping me maintain the website!!! 
• Miss Peg rebuild has been updated by Jack Hines with a new page.
• Two pages added by Brent McLean on Bill Ritner's Wa Wa TOO F-247. One is on the 1958 built Lauterbach hull. The other is 1963 built Lauterbach hull. 
• Sunshine Baby has 4 photos added.

• All of 2002 From the Vintage Notebook are added to Tom D'Eath's Propeller articles.
• This web site's Search engine is back on line (again).

• February 1994 From the Vintage Notebook are added to Tom D'Eath's Propeller articles.
• 2003 Dayton Testing information added in the 2003 Schedule of Vintage Events.

• March & April 1994 From the Vintage Notebook are added to Tom D'Eath's Propeller articles.
• WHO DAT is remembered in the historical boat section.

Contributions of information to the website and visitor counts have never been better. I wish to express my sincere appreciation to all who have took the time to send in photos, race programs, Propellers, magazines, newspaper articles and videotape. This is really solidifying what I've thought all along. Vintage Boat Racing is a growing class. Our visitors to the website have increased from 5,000 visitors a month at my last "speech" to just over 6,000/month. We have a great group of people who really are passionate of this sport and getting the information out there to all. I know the momentum will continue. 

As more restoration projects continue, I hope for the best to those who labor the love of bringing one of these former racing hulls back to glory. We could also use some more articles in that respect. I, personally, would really like to see more technical articles written. Your experience can go a long ways in helping others who are about to begin this journey. Please consider authoring a subject. I recently received an email asking for help with this subject matter. I thought there was some great ideas for those of you who are interested in that respect. I have posted that email to the Technical Article's Table of Contents. Please look it over and if you see an topic that you can help out on, please do.

Now, I also have a plea to anyone who would like to help. The website has again reached it's next level of capacity of server space. Our website is now just under 50 MB of information. You probably haven't noticed, but a few items have been eliminated from the website in an effort to keep our server space below this limit. I really hate doing this, as I want to see the website continue to grow as a functioning library and promoter of vintage boat racing. I will soon be increasing this server space when "push comes to shove". If you would like help defer some of these cost, this site is now looking for sponsors. Jeff (Capt Nemo) Buckley was our first sponsor and his generous gift is now bringing you the messageboard ad-free for all of 2003, along with a few additional perks. If you're looking for parts or restoration supplies, please give Jeff a call, let him know you saw his ad on the website and patronize his business. 
Now, if you would like to see this website continue to grow....consider a monetary contribution. I'll build you a recognition card recognizing you as a sponsor of this website!

• A model named Legacy and built by John Harper is added in the models section.
• A new clue, possibly, at one of the no-name hydros is in the Where are they Now? section.
• New Wanted poster is posted on Phil Kunz Photography.
• Two race programs added to Regatta Past - 1957 Cambridge, Maryland & 1981 Molson Gold Cup at Picton, Ontario. (Thanks to Bob Jones and John Nebelecky)
• 2001 Boat Registration numbers for the United States added in the Story's section.
• Keith Brayer's Yankee Doodle has 2 new photos on his rebuild of this hull.