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                               FAMOUS HYDROPLANES

  1953 Ferrari Hydroplane

 

On the morning of October 15, 1953, Achille Castoldi succeeded in smashing the 800kg class speed record with an average “flying kilometer” two-way speed of 150.49 mph.  He followed up the performance later that day by setting another record in the “24 nautical miles” event.
 

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  1954 Ferrari Hydroplane 

 

 

Castoldi retired from hydroplane racing in 1954.  He sold Arno XI to a wealthy engineer named Nando dell’Orto. Dell’Orto revised the body lines of the engine cover and front fairing, added a large fin behind the driver for stability, and raced the boat for a few more years. The most notable success was a 2nd place finish in the 1965 900kg World Championship.
 

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  1938 Miss Canada III

 

 

Miss Canada III 's 24½ ft hull integrated a double concave unevenly spaced set of steps on its bottom (later dubbed "keel knuckle" steps.)  This feature gave it exceptional directional and turning stability even in rough water. The design also resulted in a low specific drag coefficient on the wetted surface giving it an optimum running attitude.  Her engine was a Miller V-12, 1,000 HP.
 

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  2007 Ferrari Hydroplane

 

 

A Granturismo boat powered by a Ferrari F430 V8 engine has established two new world water speed records on Lake Como in Italy.  The two records were set in the categories Endurance Group B class S1 and S2, with an average speed of 123,288 km/h and 122,035 km/h on the running kilometer.
   

1950 Slo Mo Shun IV

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

During the first half of the 20th Century, no boat representing a yacht club from west of the Mississippi River was ever victorious. All of that changed in 1950 when SLO-MO-SHUN IV from Seattle finally turned the trick at Detroit.  SLO-MO IV was the first craft to reap championship results in the application of the concept of "prop-ride" on a semi-submerged propeller.  The days when a hydroplane could win with a fully submerged propeller were numbered. Overnight, competition speeds of over 100 miles per hour and straightaway speeds of over 150 were commonplace. Click to commission it.
  1959 Miss Supertest III

 

 

 

 

 

Miss Supertest III became the fastest hydroplane powerboat in the world, setting a water speed record of 296.975 km/h (184.54 mph) on November 1, 1957, and again at 300.338 km/h (186.630 mph) in 1960, both at Picton, Ontario.   Designed and built in Canada, she competed and won the 1959 Detroit Memorial Regatta and the 1959, 1960, and 1961 Harmsworth Trophy races. She was the only three-time Harmsworth Trophy winner.   This very boat ended American dominance in the sport and  began Canadian dynasty.  She was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame in 1960. She is also on display at the Hall of Transportation at the Ontario Science Centre. Click to commission it.
 
  1965 Miss Canadiana

 

 


Miss Canadiana is a UIM world record holder of 153.75 mph at Beloil, Quebec during the summer of 1965 in the Grand Prix class. It was driven to this world record by world famous Art Asbury, (the driver of Miss Supertest II who achieved a world straightaway record of 184.54 mph at Picton, Ontario 1957). 
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  Miss Britain III

 

 

 

 

On 16 November 1933 on Southampton Water, Scott-Paine and Gordon Thomas became the first men to travel at over 100 mph in a single-engined boat, and this record remained for 50 years. In 1934, Miss Britain III was taken to Venice in where Scott-Paine won both the Volpi Cup and the Prince of Piedmont Cup, setting a world record for a single-engined boat of 110.1 mph in salt water. In 1951 Scott-Paine presented Miss Britain III to the National Maritime Museum where it remains on view. Click to commission it.
   

Spirit of Australia

 

 

 

 

 

 


Ken Warby is the first & only person to DESIGN ,  BUILD , & PILOT  his own boat to the World Water Speed Record. He had built the craft in his back yard.  He broke Lee Taylor's record by pilot his  boat to 288.6 mph (464.5 km/h). On October 8, 1978 he broke both the 300 mph (483 km/h) and 500 km/h barriers with an average speed of 317.6 mph (511 km/h).  Powered by a 6,000 horse power J34 Westinghouse jet engine, he didn’t just break the existing Australian record of 162 mph, he virtually doubled it. Spirit of Australia is displayed permanently at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
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  1977 Miss Budweiser

 

 

 

 


Miss Budweiser was the 1977 Unlimited Hydroplane Racing National Champion. Powered by a supercharged 3,000 horsepower Rolls Royce engine and kicking up seven tons of water in a graceful airborn wake called a "rooster tail," the mahogany-decked Miss Bud was rated by even some Indianapolis car drivers as the most dramatic spectacle of speed the world has ever seen. She was indeed the fastest, classiest and costliest lady in big league hydroplane racing. She was the only one who beat the Atlas, doing so at Tri-Cities. 
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1958 Miss
Hawaii Kai III

 

 

 


 

 

Edgar Kaiser's Hawaii Kai III, designed by Ted Jones, was the greatest race boat of the 1950s. She was the finest competitive machine in the history of Unlimited hydroplane racing at that time, setting records of speed and endurance that stood for many years.  Maintained by the crew of the Slo-Mo-Shun IV, the boat dominated the 1957's, winning 5 races and setting the Miles Straightaway World Record from 178 mph to 187 mph.  The Kai is probably best remembered for her performance after retirement in 1958, when the boat was dusted off and put out on Lake Washington to defend the Gold Cup.  The fastest propeller-driven craft in the world won the World Series of boating, the Gold Cup, August 10th, 1958, in a decisive, clear-cut performance.  She left no doubt she was the best boat on the course, the greatest unlimited of all time. Following her final retirement, the Kai was towed into the San Juans and given a Viking funeral with tremendous respect and grief. Click to commission it.
 
  1982 Atlas Van Lines

 

 

 

 


Over sixteen years of racing, the ‘82 Atlas is probably best remembered as the boat Chip Hanauer drove to his first two Gold Cup wins. This also marked the last time a piston powered unlimited would be victorious at the Gold Cup. The boat also set numerous records both in competition and qualifying. 
2002 marked the 20th anniversary of the ‘82 Atlas Van Lines. The restoration took quite a bit longer than the original “100 days” construction, but the boat is back better than ever. The Atlas project was the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum’s most exhaustive to date.  Click to commission it.
  1955 Bluebird K7

 

 

 

 


The world's first turbojet hydroplane was christened "Bluebird K7" in February 1955 by Dorothy Campbell, wife of speed king Donald.  Over the following years, Bluebird K7 was to set seven world water speed records, eventually becoming the most famous world water speed record boat of all time.  On the morning of January 4th, 1967, Donald Campbell was killed on Coniston water, thus ending twelve years of record-breaking. His last record of 276mph which was set in 1964 stood firm until Spirit of Australia came into existence.  Click to commission it.

 


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