{"id":2017,"date":"2017-07-06T22:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-07T03:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2017-07-09T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T18:02:12","slug":"whippet-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/whippet-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Whippet Class (from the 1930s)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: I received this email and pics from Roy Cooper. If someone has any knowledge, please respond here or let Roy know.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was wondering if anyone might know anything about a British hydroplane class dating from the 1930s known as Whippet Class racing. Please see pic of magazine article from that period.<br \/>\nAlso,\u00a0 an engine known as the Whippet from the same period\u00a0(please see other two pics courtesy of Time and Tide Boats). We have been offered to purchase\u00a0the Whippet engine but have little idea of \u00a0its rarity or value.<\/p>\n<p>Any assistance you can give on this would be much appreciated.<br \/>\nKind regards,\u00a0 Roy Cooper<br \/>\nFast On Water 2017<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastonwater.co.uk\">www.fastonwater.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\nCircuit Powerboat History Website. Leading website for circuit power boat racing. Covering drivers, boat builders, top events, clubs. Fast On Water is a not for profit organization set up to preserve the history of powerboat racing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/whippet-class\/2017-07-06-whippet-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-06-Whippet-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1763\" height=\"2295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-06-Whippet-1.jpg 1763w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-06-Whippet-1-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-06-Whippet-1-787x1024.jpg 787w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1763px) 100vw, 1763px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/whippet-class\/2017-07-06-whippet-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2019\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-06-Whippet-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2017-07-06-Whippet-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" \/>Above two photos copyrighted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeandtideboats.com\/\">Time and Tide Boats Ltd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editor&#8217;s note: I received this email and pics from Roy Cooper. If someone has any knowledge, please respond here or let Roy know.\u00a0 I was wondering if anyone might know anything about a British hydroplane class dating from the 1930s known as Whippet Class racing. Please see pic of magazine &hellip;<\/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-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","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=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2030,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}