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 Vintage
Race Boat Shop
We maintain vintage wooden boats.
Our 2010 Vintage Event
Schedule - another summer of fun
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APBA Vintage Race Boat
Circuit
 The first
APBA sanctioned vintage race boat
regatta was at Clayton, New York in 1992, where we got a chance to run
our beloved vintage race boats on an actual race course, running some pretty
hot laps. Since then,
in the spirit of Gar Wood and Orlin Johnson, we have run our beloved Gar Wood
Speedster Obsession on the
APBA Vintage Race Boat Circuit. Like vintage car racing, there are actually
people out there who run their vintage race boats on APBA (American Power
Boat Association) sanctioned race courses, and participate in a very active APBA Vintage Race
Boat Circuit.
These vintage regattas are run under the rules and regulations of the Vintage
& Historic Division of the American Power Boat Association (APBA). This is pretty serious stuff,
complete with surveyed race courses, safety inspections, drivers meetings,
crane launching and demonstration heats usually of 5 or 6 laps. We do have
fun, but safety is our main concern, and our APBA Vintage & Historic Division
has a great record of running safe
and fun events.
APBA V&H Division
2010 Event Schedule
Lots & lots of photos !!!
Local ACBS Vintage
Events
 Since
1979, we
have also been active members and promoters of our
New England Chapter of the Antique & Classic Boat
Society. We are Board Members, continue to maintain
the
chapter Website, and we are very active participating
at local ACBS vintage events here on beautiful Lake
Winnipesaukee.
ACBS Website
2010 Event Schedule
Lots & lots of
photos !!!
New Hampshire Boat
Museum
 Additionally, we are active members and
promoters of our beloved NH Boat Museum,
located right here in beautiful Wolfeboro,
where we were board members during the early
years and started their Website.
NH Boat
Museum Website
2010 Event Schedule
Our 2010 Vintage
Event Schedule !!!
For the past ten
years, we have been “on the road” promoting, supporting and participating
at APBA vintage
regattas every summer. Lots of fun, but also lots of
expenses with the many miles, lodging and way too
many days away from our shop. So this year we are
trying to balance our road trips on the Vintage
Race Boat Circuit with local vintage events here on beautiful Lake
Winnipesaukee.
Please consider joining us - for all the
adventures and all the fun ???!!!
Spring Fling Vintage Race
Boat Regatta at Tavares - March 9-21, 2010
Sunnyland Antique Boat
Festival
at Tavaras - March 26-28,
2010
After many years of wanting to make the Mt
Dora/Tavares ACBS boat show and many years of excuses, this
is the year that we are finally going to make to
trek south to warm and sunny Florida. Will be
hauling
My Precious
to participate at both the CRA Vintage
Regatta and then the ACBS Boat Show the
following weekend.
Please, please, please - let it be warm & sunny ???!!!
Spring Romp & Spring Gathering -
June 12, 2010
 This
is a Spring gathering of our local ACBS membership, and a
celebration of our beautiful wooden boats. The afternoon
begins with a Spring Romp, meeting at the Wolfeboro
public docks at 1 PM for a scenic cruise. The route will
depend on weather and water conditions. After our Spring
Romp, we will gather at the home of Charlie & Ilona
Train for a cocktail party, live music and a catered
dinner. Lots of good
friends, music, and of course lots of food and drink.
Click here for photos
Detroit APBA Gold Cup Unlimited
Hydroplane Regatta - June 25-27, 2010
 Tom
Bertolini and Joe Schulte are hard at work, planning for
this summer's Detroit APBA Gold Cup. This is perhaps the
most exciting event on our vintage circuit - as we get to
run with the big dogs - the unlimited hydroplanes. In
addition to the spectacular Unlimited Hydroplanes, this is
also a very large gathering of beautiful vintage race boats, including 3-point hydroplanes, Jersey Speed Skiffs, Gold
Cup fast steppers, and fire breathing grand prix hydros.
The vintage boats will
on display
all weekend, and will also ran
demonstration heats on the historic Detroit Gold Cup race
course. This year, we will again be located in
the "Piston Park" area, close to the start/finish line, and
the logistics will again be just superb - thanks to the
event organizers. We will have lots of space, 3 cranes
for just our vintage boats, and over 100 feet of good
docking on the water. The boats will be crane launched, and
the docks will be so long that we will be able to pre-stage
our vintage heats at the dock. The boats will all be
released all at once, great fun and very dramatic,
especially on heats with over 8 race boats !!!
Click here for photos
37th Annual Boat Show - July 23-24,
2010
Our annual Antique & Classic
Boat Show at the Meredith public docks is a huge
gathering of beautiful antique and classic wooden boats,
with
large crowds and over 80 vintage wooden boats on display
all day in a judged competition. This is quite a sight
to behold, and for a special treat get to the docks
early on Saturday morning to watch and listen as the
vintage boats arrive under their
own power. There will also be a large static display of
vintage race boats. The sights and
sounds are magnificent, and to get an idea of the
magnitude of this gathering of wooden boats, please take
a moment to view our photo album from last year's show.
Click here for photos
Antique Race Boat Regatta at
Clayton, NY - August 12-15, 2010
 Back in the early ‘90’s some nostalgia buffs with old
race boats were musing about the success of the Antique
Boat Show at the Clayton Antique Boat Museum. The idea
to hold a similar event with vintage race boats was
tossed out and caught hold. Bill Munro chaired a large
group of committed enthusiasts who hosted the first ever
Vintage Race Boat Regatta in August of 1992. Eighteen
years of this biennial event have brought together some
of the greatest names in racing and likewise many of the
most famous boats of all time. Such greats as Riggs
Smith, Bob Schroeder, Fred Alter and Buddy Byers were on
the original organizing committee. Many others were in
critical positions making it all happen. Over the years
the Vintage Race Boat Regatta has given owners, drivers,
historians and public an opportunity to see the greatest
boats of all time performing in the water with dramatic
rooster tails and the roar of powerful engines. Next summer, 2010 will be the 10th
Anniversary of Race Boat Regatta at Clayton. We hope
many of the boats that attended the very first regatta
as well as those that came out of barns and storage
sheds over the years will be with us doing vintage
fly-bys on the museum waterfront. Vintage race boats
have come of age and our opportunity to demonstrate them
in their natural environment has caught the public
attention. Just think, vintage all started in Clayton in
1992 and has grown to where in 2009 there were 27
sanctions approved for vintage events. Between now and August 2010, a large group of
volunteers are working diligently to make this the
biggest and best event in our long history. Please mark
your calendars for 12–15 August, 2010. While we won’t
send out the formal registration package until January,
if you are planning on attending we would appreciate
hearing from you.
Click here
for photos
Wolfeboro Car & Boat Rendezvous - September 25, 2010
 On
Saturday, September 25th, the Wolfeboro Car & Boat
Rendezvous will be held at the Public Docks and Parking
Area in downtown Wolfeboro, NH. Sponsored by the New
England Chapter of the Antique and Classic Boat Society,
this event is a wonderful blending of pre-1970 wooden
boats and automobiles. Picturesque Wolfeboro, situated
on Lake Winnipesaukee, is the perfect background for a
fun filled day of nostalgia, fall foliage, music, shops
and restaurants. This is a non-judged and no-stress
show, a Fall celebration and rendezvous. More details
and the registration form will soon be posted, but
please mark your calendar for September 25th !!!
Click here
for photos
Fall Foliage Cruise - October 9,
2010
 George
Johnson started this tradition years ago, and now
Charlie Train has stepped up to to revive our annual
trek. This is a Fall gathering of our local ACBS membership,
and a celebration of our beautiful wooden boats. The
route will depend on weather and water conditions, and
all are welcome to join
our entourage. After
brunch we usually take a scenic cruise up to Greens Basin
at the northern tip of the lake, then return home to
Wolfeboro.
Click here
for photos
That's the plan for
our 2010
summer of fun, several road trips on the Vintage Race
Boat Circuit and several local vintage events here
on beautiful Lake Winnipesaukee. Please consider joining
us for all the adventures and all the fun ???!!!
And start planning for 2011.....
Wolfeboro Vintage Race Boat Regatta - Sept 14-17, 2011
 The past
will come alive as some of the best known race
boats of bygone eras return to Wolfeboro, for our sixth Wolfeboro Vintage Race Boat
Regatta. Wolfeboro is now a major stop on the APBA Vintage Race
Boat Circuit, and this summer's regatta expands to 4 full days, and includes 70
Vintage race boats running demonstration laps on a
1 mile oval course, on
beautiful
 Wolfeboro Bay. In addition to seeing and hearing these unique and
beautiful boats run, spectators are invited to view them close-up in the pit
area, at the Town Docks between 9 and 4, on both Friday and Saturday. This year our Wolfeboro vintage event
is scheduled for the weekend after Buffalo, and as many of you know, our Wolfeboro vintage regatta is held every other year,
alternating with Clayton, and we are becoming well known for our "flat water"
and lots of water time. In fact, we run vintage heats every half hour for two
full days. So if you wanna see lots of vintage race boats running at speed, you just gotta come to Wolfeboro
in 2011!!!
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