{"id":5337,"date":"2023-07-23T22:15:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T03:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/?p=5337"},"modified":"2023-07-23T22:17:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T03:17:31","slug":"gee-whizzz-and-high-hopes-hydros-added-to-our-boats-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/gee-whizzz-and-high-hopes-hydros-added-to-our-boats-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Gee Whizzz and High Hopes hydros added to our boat&#8217;s directory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><small><strong><em>Gee Whizzz A-29<\/em><\/strong><\/small><br \/><small>Bob Johanson of Benton City, Washington started his racing in the\u00a0the N class and changed to the A class in 1964. He campaigned all his boats under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/gee_whizzz\/gee_whizzz.html\">GEE WHIZZZ<\/a> name and was always running up front through the early to mid 1960s. His webpage is full of neat photos and many newspaper articles.<\/small><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/gee_whizzz\/17_Carver_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/><br \/><small><strong><em>High Hopes 22-A<\/em><\/strong><br \/>Jack Hess\u00a0of Benton City, Washington, (later Seattle) started his racing in the early 1960s. He campaigned\u00a0his boats under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/high_hopes\/high_hopes.html\">HIGH HOPES<\/a> name. His most successful was built by him and Joe McMahon using modified Sooy plans. Hess and High Hopes went on to become 1967 National High Point Champion.<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/boats\/high_hopes\/13_High_Hopes_w_crew.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gee Whizzz A-29Bob Johanson of Benton City, Washington started his racing in the\u00a0the N class and changed to the A class in 1964. He campaigned all his boats under the GEE WHIZZZ name and was always running up front through the early to mid 1960s. His webpage is full of &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-5337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337","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=5337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5337\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagehydroplanes.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}