Thunder boats ignite Seattle Seafair race spectacle
Seattle hosts the unlimited hydroplane Seafair Trophy Race drawing about a hundred thousand spectators. The sport features 25 to 40 foot boats powered by V-12 aircraft engines, reaching around 170 mph with brutal starts and dangerous wakes. Riders like Chenoweth and Muncey are seen as nerves of steel in a world mixing danger, tradition, and big-budget thrills.
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Seattle
Washington
Lake Washington
Puget Sound
Union
Dean Chenoweth
Billy Schumacher
Leif Bergersen
Jim McCormick
Bill Muncey
Tommy Fults
Gar Wood
Tampa
D. C
Detroit
Madison
San Diego
Hickory Nut Golf Club Opens Mature Course In Columbia Township
The Hickory Nut Golf Club on Route 82 in Columbia Township offers 18 holes over 170 acres with watered fairways and elevated tees and greens. Pro Wil Mobley calls it a mature course in its second year, featuring long rough, no sand yet, planned beaches, and a 6300 yard layout with big greens and tricky pin placements built by the Kucharski brothers.
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Hickory Nut Golf Club
Columbia
Wil Mobley
C-T
John Klein
Route 82
Columbia Township
Mobley
Kucharski Brothers
Ted
Jim
Leo
Woods
Telltale JUNIOR RACE WEEK and Sear's Cup semi finals
Victorys and team selections shape the Sear's Cup junior racing as W B C and Vermilion Yacht Club pick skippers and crews to represent their clubs at ILYA quarter finals at Put-in-Bay. The voyage included a late ferry trip, a weather squall, and a Middle Bass Island house fire sighting.
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I L.Y.A
W.B.C
John Trinter
Ken van Wagen
Ken
Rob Greenwood
Cliff Schuman
Linda Ford
V.B.C
Herbert Rosenbaum
Lorain
South Bass Island
Catawba Point
O'Mine
Vermilion
Kelly's Island
Kelley’s
Ballast Island
Put-in-Bay Harbor
Middle Bass Island
O’bryan
Squan’ Arbor
Middle Bass
Cleveland
Miller Ferry
O’bryans
Mack Sennett
Junior Sailors Open Season With Dinner and Regatta Drama
Opening event for the Junior Sailors featured a Park Hotel barbecue and a recall filled race schedule. Indianapolis Sailing Club led early races with key safety leadership by John Polly LCYC and chaos from a compass error. Buckeye Lake YC and Erie YC contended, as final Thistle class race crowned Erie Pa Yacht Club first in the IL YA Junior Championship and Lear's Cup semi final berth.
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Park Hotel
Court Yard
Roundhouse
John Polly
Lake County Yacht Club
Arnold Bahr
LCYC
William “Scotty” Robertson
Mentor Harbor YC
Russ Minch
Lorain
PIBYC
Harlo McNally
Elyria
Indianapolis Sailing Club
Indianapolis
School House Bay
Leather Lips YC
Columbus
Ohio
Pymatuming YC
Buckeye Lake
Erie YC
Sandusky Sailing Club
Indianapolis SC
Anybodies
Michigan
Monroe Boat Club
Erie Pa Yacht Clubs
I-L YA
Local Golf Tourney Yields Several Class Winners
Hook led 51 players with low net at Millstone Hills yesterday. Emily Ehman won low putts, to be honored at the Lorain County Women’s District Golf Association banquet in October. Sylvia Sholle defeated Jeanne Kimmack in sudden death for Class A, Bernice Yunker captured Class B, Shirley Zatroch Class C, and Shirley Skall Class 1.
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Arretta Hook
Emily Ehman
Lorain County
Lvia Sholle
Jeanne Kimmack
Bernice Yunker
Shirley Zatroch
Shirley Skall
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Prout’s
U.S. 20
Telltale
Art O'Hara
V.Y.C
Vermilion Yacht Club
Heidi Backus
Cleveland Yachting Club
Heidi
CYC
Thistle
VYC
Erie
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