Museum location: 5917 S. 196th St., Kent. Displays: Before or after watching this weekend’s hydroplane races on Lake Washington, a stop here will round out the experience and leave your head spinning ...
KENT, Wash. – Back when he was a kid growing up in Seattle, David Williams knew well the thrill of hydroplane racing. Back then, in the summers of the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was the sport in ...
Got to hand it to the folks at the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America for coming up with unique auctions to help support the Hall of Fame and its mission of honoring racing greats. The latest such ...
What do you do? I am the executive director of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum [in Kent]. We are the nation’s only museum dedicated exclusively to powerboat racing. Unlike many museums, all of our ...
Donald Campbell's Bluebird is at the centre of a legal battle worth nearly £150,000. Paul Kinghan is seeking £147,162 from ...
Eric Mann, 43, is a vintage-hydroplane owner and president of the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum, 1650 S. 93rd St., near Boeing Field. He's also an electrical engineer with Cypress Semiconductor with ...
The Bluebird K7, the world's first successful jet-engined hydroplane and a multiple-record holder for speed on water, is back at home in Coniston, Cumbria, in the UK. Its road back home was long, ...
A new exhibit at the Reach center in Richland will celebrate 50 years of hydroplane racing on the Columbia River. Conover Insurance is sponsoring the exhibit, which opens June 26 and runs through July ...
The Miss DiJulio/J&D’s thunderboat is moved into Lake Washington for this weekend’s hydroplane races. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) The roar of this weekend’s Seafair hydroplane races on Lake ...