Word: motorboater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...governing body of all motorboat races), is run according to strict rules, draws crowds of 100,000 or more to watch the winner get the checkered flag...
Aquaplaning is.nothing more than standing on a broad, flat board, hanging onto a rope and being towed by a motorboat. But, at 50 m.p.h. hanging-on is no hay ride. Usually, less than half the starters finish (falling off, however, does not disqualify). Despite padded shin guards and taped hands, those who finish invariably require first aid-for sprained wrists, numbed feet, bruises from flying fish as well as falls. Many are carried from the finish-line to a hospital...
Eliot has an outboard motor boat, and two enterprising Bellboys have purchased an old motorboat that had been ravaged by fire and reconditioned it for the House...
...eights nearly crashed into a stanchion of Lars Anderson as its cox eagerly watched the tangle, and the motorboat following the race nearly ran down a laggard eight as it turned to come to the rescue...
...Higgins, a 55-year-old Irishman, born in Omaha. An old Mississippi River racer, Higgins went after the record of the legendary river steamer Robert E. Lee for the 1,200-mile upriver run from New Orleans to St. Louis. In 1929 he broke it in his spoon-bow motorboat, And How III. Time: 87 hrs. In 1931, in Greyhound (a modified And How III), he whittled it to 72 hrs. 4 min. Because debris in the Mississippi had slowed his record-making run by twice crumpling his propellers, he added to the spoon bow a whale-belly stern...