Classic Australian Wooden Power Boat Association

Some interesting small Skiffs and Runabouts pictured: Bert Everinghams FLEA , Max Luhrs Winton built VIPER , Erwin Gribbs Everingham RHONDA TWO. Along with the Hydroplanes previously listed the cream of Australia's 155 ci Class were at this event. All Championship pics I believe as the Vic boats pic...

The Hydro next to Black Knight is Assassin, the small Cabover on the right of the 155 line up I believe is Bruce Greys Taboo a copy of American "Doc Eastmans" record holding 50 ci Crosley powered Hull.

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Thats the Everingham in question , that pick would have been taken when the Australian Championships were held there. That Hull was a very close cousin to the Stephens family. The boats lining up were getting ready for the 155 ci Hydroplane race , Ian Harveys SNOOPY is in the middle . CHINOOK is on ...

An extremely good article , gives a clear idea of how and why things were constructed for hoped continual improvement in performance.

Wildwoody1

Ray you sure cop a lot of crap about the type of power unit in Pagan , when you research the units use in Road Cars there are some interesting facts available. When installed in the 1960 TR 4 Triumph the car had a top speed of 110 mph. A grey Holden powered Sedan would run 80.4 mph on a good day . M...

There have been some interesting comments about the construction of old classic race boats however the main points about hull designs has been missed. Big name builders all had a standard design for the masses to buy , this ski boat type was built using the same frames for design. Some were even mad...

Agreed , should be great.

Also note the Cav plate is rather small , won,t do much for trimming such a large hull. However this was typical of Lewis designs and the major reason not to use large diameter props with small gears.. Creates the issue of remaining as a fully original restoration or modified for a better ride. As i...

I viewed hundreds of Ski and race boats during the 60s thru to the 80,s across 4 States and never saw this common conversion. Hope someone finds it and posts pictures it will be interesting to see what carbs were used on what must have been semi updraft manifold.

Wildwoody1

Ferguson Tractors are where it all started , but not totally identical twins.

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