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The engine sizes range from 9.9 horsepower (7.4 kW) to 50 horsepower (37 kW) with speeds from 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) to 90 miles per hour (140 km/h). In the C Stock Class, the Yamato Motor Company engines used in Kyōtei boat racing (with parimutuel betting ) in Japan, are reconditioned, shipped to the United States and used for racing in ...
Garfield Wood in 1938 Gar Wood returns the Harmsworth Trophy to the United States in 1920. Garfield Arthur "Gar" Wood (December 4, 1880 – June 19, 1971) was an American inventor, entrepreneur, and championship motorboat builder and racer who held the world water speed record on several occasions.
The Antique Boat Museum is a located in the 1000 Islands on the St. Lawrence River, in Clayton, New York, United States. The Antique Boat Museum is the premier freshwater boating museum in North America. The ABM's collections hold over 320 unique boats [1] and thousands of related artifacts and archives. The 4.5-acre campus comes alive with ...
The Squire Shop, in the late 1970s, became a competitive boat in the unlimited fleet against the likes of the Budweisers, Atlas, and Pay N Pak. It had a young, successful driver in Chip Hanauer.
The list of modern world champions extended into the 1980s, when the sport entered the catamaran, and then the 'superboat' era – the 1000 cubic inch total engine displacement restrictions were lifted for boats over 45 feet (14 m) in length, and soon three- and four-engine boats sporting F16 fighter canopies replaced the venerable 35-to-40 ...
General Motors's Russ O'Blenes, director of the engine team behind the roaring Cadillac GTP, will lead the new operation in North Carolina. GM's Formula 1 Engine Shop Will Be Based in Charlotte ...
The museum has a machine shop for dismantling and rebuilding engines, and new parts are made, when necessary. The museum also exhibits some historical machinery, such as a bandsaw-based sawmill driven by a Bukh engine via an elaborate belt drive that connects the indoor engine with the outdoor sawmill.
In December 2022, The Ruskin Museum announced Lancashire-based WEC Group Ltd [66] as its chosen engineering partners to maintain Bluebird K7 once she is returned to Coniston. [67] Three Orpheus engines have also been donated to the Museum as The Ruskin Museum plan to run K7 on Coniston Water once it is returned. [68] "The models of Orpheus the ...