It’s a noisy summertime tradition and popular spectator sport here in Seattle and it has been for decades. But old-timers say that the new arrivals just don’t get it, that they don’t appreciate the ...

On the Web: For more information on the Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum in Kent, Wash., go to www.thunderboats.org. Information on the hydroplanes can be found at http ...

Murdo Cameron has something to tell the sport of hydroplane racing: Lighten up already. The retired airline pilot, an innovator in the field of advanced composite materials, says he can transform how ...

Grand Prix America Hydroplanes says it’s returning to Seattle’s Seafair Weekend Festival. It’s taking place on Lake Washington from August 1 to 3, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily. “With the Grand Prix class ...

Cal Phipps in the U-27 Wiggins Racing unlimited hydroplane went airborne last year during qualifying for the Gold Cup on the Columbia River. The boats will be back in the water starting Friday as the ...

Michigan powerboat administrator Mark Weber knows the sport from in and out of the cockpit. A champion hydroplane racer in 5 Liter to Unlimited Hydroplanes, Weber has also been the longtime race ...

At the Active Auto Care shop in Auburn the guys don’t just talk engines, they also talk hydroplane racing. They’re locals, you know? Rich Matkin, 61, Newport High class of 1971, who went to his first ...

Whether you love their aerial acrobatics or loathe their deafening roar, the Blue Angels are back, heralding the big finale to Seattle's 75-year-old festival. Why it matters: For many Seattleites, ...

DETROIT — As a 5-year-old sitting in the Slo-Mo-Shun IV — the boat on which his grandfather was a crewman in Seattle — Terry Troxell looked over its nose and said to himself that he would one day make ...

SEATTLE – On Friday, the 70th annual Seafair Festival turned up a notch with the start of the hydroplane races. “It’s like quintessential Seattle summers. It just a fun time for everyone, what ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Sue Shelley and her family spend their days at a hospital, waiting and praying that one day her son, 32-year-old Freddie Watson, will wake up from a coma. “I think we ...