{"id":4742,"date":"2023-04-05T20:25:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T01:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=4742"},"modified":"2023-04-21T21:10:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T02:10:50","slug":"george-walthers-country-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/george-walthers-country-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"George Walther&#8217;s Country Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/country_boy\/19a.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Phil Kunz is doing 3 stories on the boats that campaigned under the <strong>COUNTRY BOY<\/strong> name. <br \/>The first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/country_boy\/country_boy.html\">CB story is on George Walther and his sons<\/a>. The other stories will be the Wiener family&#8217;s <strong>Country Boy<\/strong> and the  Siracusa family&#8217;s <strong>Country Boy<\/strong>. <br \/>The Walther&#8217;s boats campaigned under the name <strong>COUNTRY BOY<\/strong> and wow, did they have a lot of hydros. The boat racing bug started with Dad (George) as a young lad in the outboard class and then he moved up to the limited inboard classes. Eventually his son&#8217;s Skip and Salt took over driving as they became old enough to drive and the family did well. The Walther&#8217;s family last moved up to the unlimited class and ran a few of the big boats. The Unlimited hydros were not running under the CB name (as you could sell the boat&#8217;s naming rights to help support the cause).  A real neat story and we think you will be amazed at the number of <strong>Country Boy<\/strong> hulls that they campaigned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Kunz is doing 3 stories on the boats that campaigned under the COUNTRY BOY name. The first CB story is on George Walther and his sons. The other stories will be the Wiener family&#8217;s Country Boy and the Siracusa family&#8217;s Country Boy. The Walther&#8217;s boats campaigned under the name &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-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","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=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5164,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/5164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}