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Next day the commuters read in their papers how the outboard motorboats that they had seen had raced round Staten Island and how Baby Olds, piloted by D. W. Brewster, had won after Miss Princess caught fire and the Corson upset. And they read how in all the waters fringing the continent little boats, big boats, sailboats, motorboats, were being launched, sailed, raced...
...Outboard Motorboats last week lined up in Boston to race down the stretch of open water to the Cape Cod Canal, through the canal, Fisher's Island and Long Island Sounds to Flushing, N. Y. Along the coast four destroyers and 40 Coast Guard boats were stationed to mark the course, help the disabled. Seventy boats jockeyed around the starting line until a cannon boomed...
More than a hundred motor-boatmen in little boats with outboard motors started to race in wind and sleet from Albany to New York for a first prize of $500 to go to the boatman who covers the most points in four races. Kirk Ames of New York won the first race...
Salty observers noted that speed was the keynote. Slim mahogany hydroplanes to carry a half dozen slightly bewildered passengers were credited with 55 miles per hour. Large lumberers of the cruiser type were ticketed to do 25. Tiny spiderlike shells with outboard motors swarmed everywhere boasting varied, astonishing rapidities over 30 m. p. h. Oldsters recalled how very few years ago it was when none but the maddest special speed boats ran over...
Rich brokers pored over faster runabouts or the flat snouted, roomy sea sleds. Small watermen gazed knowingly at single and two cylinder power plants for staunch waterfront wanderers. Children chattered over the countless, bright colored flat backed outboard boats, dragged parents by the coat tails begging them to come buy. The famed Fantail racing runabout which made such astounding speeds in the late autumn was a continuous curiosity. At an easy angle under her stern projected a bronze colored tail, raising her out of water, reducing hull resistance. Miss America V, world's record holding hydroplane, arrived...