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11/27/2024

11/01/2024

Kip Brown is making great progress on the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum’s Hustler project. He has finished the bottom, rolled the boat over and pulled off all of the old delaminating fiberglass.

10/02/2024

Set up for Mahogany and Merlot 2024 in Chelan is starting. We will have a lot of action on the water and an extremely cool static exhibition in the parking lot.

09/12/2024

On Sept 12, 1992 I walked into the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum for the first. I was 34 years old. The top photo is what I saw. Since that day, I’ve spent over 85,000 hours trying to create what we have now. In that time we’ve raised and spent $13,000,000 to restore and run vintage unlimiteds. We have run 113 exhibitions and turned approximately 12,656 laps. We have assembled a team of truly amazing volunteers that can do anything from building boats and engines to producing events and documentary movies. Tomorrow I turn 67 and will have spent almost half of my life with these extraordinary machines and the people who make them sing. Before I turned out the light tonight, I took the second photo. The difference between the two photos show you what half a life time of work can accomplish. Unfortunately the shop was empty when I left and you can’t see the hundreds of donors and volunteers that have helped make this all possible. My only regret is that I don’t have another life time to give to them all.

08/05/2024

A celebration of the life of our dear friend and long time Unlimited Light official Forrester "Bo" Darling will be held Tuesday August 6th at 2:00 pm at Emmanuel Episcopal Church 4400 86th Ave SE Mercer Island, WA 98040 For those unable to attend in person the service will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqrSzUMhACU

08/01/2024

Murphy got to meet the legendary hydro referee Michael Noonan today.

If Murphy could talk.”So we agree right? There are no rules against four legged drivers, so if Dad would just arrange for me to take a dunk test, I’d be legal to drive!”

07/13/2024

As a kid I used to love listening to KOL 1300 Radio. Yesterday I was lucky enough to do a fun interview with my good friends Pedro and
Luciana Bosio on KKOL 1300. I hope you enjoy it.

David Williams is the executive director of the Hydroplane Museum in Kent. He is also an unlimited hydroplane driver himself! And he has written and published several books on the subject of unlimited hydroplane racing. He joined us to talk about the upcoming Hydroplane Race, part of the Seattle Sea...

07/08/2024

There is a nice article about the museum in
the PacificNW Magazine section of today’s Seattle Times ( July 7th 2024)

07/07/2024

04/25/2024

The 2024 Spring Hydro Museum Auction is doing great. We have already sold a ton of items. Our Good friend JimHyatt has come up with this last second addition. Tri Cites Trucker for a Day! Check it out. I think it sound like a lot of fun.

Please click the following link to view the item:
http://thunderboats.maestroweb.com/Details.aspx?OrgID=1785&ItemID=670.