{"id":1762,"date":"2016-12-06T20:33:47","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:28:42","slug":"black-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/black-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK MAGIC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey Folks – I r’cd the following below from Chris\u00a0who just acquired this beautiful hydro. It is always great to read about another hydro that survived just enough to be restored. Interesting that it appears to have water-cooled headers running on-board. Perhaps a cool lake racer in it’s last version, but what was it before that?
\nIf anybody can help Chris out with history, please post here or click on Chris’s name below and send him an email.<\/em><\/p>\n

Hello,\u00a0Vintage Hydroplanes
\nMy name is Chris Sztuke and\u00a0I have recently purchased the hydroplane called Black Magic.<\/strong> My plans are to restore the boat, however I know very little about the boat. The lady I purchased the boat from new very little about it as her husband passed away and\u00a0the paper work and any information on the boat was lost in a fire. I would be very interested in any information I could get to help in the restoration and to understand the history of the boat.
\nI am located in Southern Ontario near Belleville.\u00a0 I know the boat has been in this area for the last 25 years.
\nAny help would be much appreciated.
\nChris Sztuke<\/a><\/p>\n

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Editor notation: History found – Ross McCracken and Bob Abbott both responded that this is the former Miss Maple Leaf II<\/strong>.<\/em>
\n Bill Ireland was former owner \/ driver.<\/em>
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Hey Folks – I r’cd the following below from Chris\u00a0who just acquired this beautiful hydro. It is always great to read about another hydro that survived just enough to be restored. Interesting that it appears to have water-cooled headers running on-board. Perhaps a cool lake racer in it’s last version, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}