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Tether Boat Racing - RC Groups

    https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?3781031-Tether-Boat-Racing
    Tether Boat Racing GPR pointed this out to us, and has even been in contact with the fellow on other model topics... lives down the street from my ol' place in Michigan, never knew. But I didn't want to bury it in Vintage or Racing, nice general interest story from the days when real men were machinists and they built their own engines.

Model Tether Boat Racing at Detroit Water Works Park and Belle Isle

    https://thunderboats.ning.com/profiles/blogs/model-tether-boat-racing-at-detroit-water-works-park-and-belle
    The competition was against the clock-Model Tether Boat Racing. These boats and their gas and steam engines were all homemade, scratch built by the talented toolmakers and machinists of the 1924-1955 era. Here in Detroit known as the Detroit Model Power Boat Club, we were the epi-center for Tether Boat Racing at Detroit's Water Works Park.

Tethered hydroplane racing - YouTube

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9COdcXpu8Y
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Vintage Tether Boats - Home - Facebook

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    Vintage Tether Boat is about the history of tether line boat racing in America, which began in the mid-1920's at Detroit's Waterworks Park. 248 peoplelike …

Racing History of tethered hydroplanes - OnTheWire

    https://onthewire.co.uk/hhistory.htm
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Tethered Hydroplane Racing Homepage - OnTheWire

    https://onthewire.co.uk/racing.htm
    The tethered hydroplane is a purpose built model, designed expressly for high speed on water using either an immersed propeller or airscrew. Boats are connected via a pair of wire bridles and a line of set length to a rotating pylon. This will give a circular lap of known length, usually 100 yards or 100 metres.

Tethered Hydro | MPBA | Model Power Boat Association

    https://www.mpba.org.uk/tethered-hydro/
    Tethered Hydroplanes are one of the oldest forms of model boating. It was natural that when organised competitions were held model boaters wished to compare the speed of their models at these events. The first races were held over a straight course but, as speeds increased, it was decided to use a circular course.

Tether Cars - VintageRacer.net

    https://www.vintageracer.net/tether-cars.html
    The M & E Model Company was located in Exmouth Devon, UK, initially producing high quality model trains and boats. In 1947 a line of tethered cars was developed and, in 1948, the Wasp was introduced. The Wasp was designed as a Class C racer, for smaller engines, usually 2.5cc diesels mounted on a wooden block; the car is 15" long.

Vintage Tether Boats - Posts | Facebook

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    This is the first boat I found that Ignited my interest in tether boats. I picked up a 1939 Model Craft...sman's Magazine in the summer of 1990. There was a story about the 1939 July 4th Tether Boat race at Detroit's Waterworks Park. I was fascinated about the race, the boats, the men and how they scratch built their boats and motors.

tethered hydroplane racing - RC Groups

    https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?3713505-tethered-hydroplane-racing
    KC8WPF. Tether racing was popular in the US through the late 1950's. The International Model Power Boating Association had tether races. From the IMPBA history site: Quote: Boating in the early formation days of IMPBA was that of tether boating. Tether boating was against. the clock, and the procedure was as follows: The course was a 105 ...

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