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Hydroplane racing to take place

WHEELING - Hydroplane racing boats - some capable of more than 150 mph - will be flying, sometimes literally, up and down the Ohio River at Wheeling this Labor Day weekend, during the city's annual Vintage Raceboat Regatta. By this week, 53 raceboat owners had committed to attend the event, which is free to the public. Proceeds benefit the Easter Seals Rehabilitation Center in Wheeling.

Activities kick off Friday night, Sept. 2 and will continue through the afternoon of Sunday, Sept. 4 at the Heritage Port in downtown Wheeling. Boats from throughout the United States and Canada will begin pulling into the port area that Friday night, and pits will be open members of the public who want to examine the craft. Then, at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, racers will take to the river for exhibition runs that will continue until 6 p.m. The same schedule will be used on Sunday.

Boats at the regatta are all inboard racing craft, some with big, highly modified engines. In contrast to most pleasure boats, with smaller outboard motors, the hydroplanes sometimes use engines in the 427-cubic-inch class. A few pack even more power. Another difference is that while almost all pleasure boat hulls sit in the water, the hydroplanes are meant to skim across its surface, with just the propellor and tiny spots on their sponsons touching the river. At some points, they can become entirely airborne.

Raceboats to be in Wheeling are from an era before modern safety equipment was required. American Power Boat Association rules now require race drivers to sit in enclosed cockpits where they are restrained in special safety cells. Vintage boats, some of them more than half a century old, have open cockpits - and no safety harnesses.

With colorful paint and equally colorful names - "Sidewinder," "Tijuana Taxi" and "Miss Dinomytes," for example - some of the boats are familiar to a few Ohio Valley residents who remember hydroplanes from the old New Martinsville Regatta. A few of the drivers who will be in Wheeling competed at New Martinsville.

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