{"id":26616,"date":"2010-01-18T08:13:38","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26616"},"modified":"2010-01-18T08:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T15:13:38","slug":"powerboat-racing-video-auto-boat-race-on-the-hudson-1904","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=26616","title":{"rendered":"Powerboat Racing Video &#8211; Auto Boat Race On the Hudson 1904"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>June 23-25, 1904. Thomas A. Edison, Inc.<br \/>\nColumbia Yacht Club on the Hudson River, West 86th Street, New York City<br \/>\nCameraman: G. W. Bitzer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>1904 APBA Gold Cup [first running]<br \/>\nThe cameras point of view is likely from the judge&#8217;s stand, possibly from a yacht club basin or yacht mooring on or near West 86th Street. The race is between small, motor-driven speed boats, which were approximately twenty feet long with the inboard engine decked over. Participants in the race were W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr. &#8216;S Hard Boiled Egg; The Standard, which won the championship and had never been beaten; the Vingt et Un; the FIAT; the Shooting Star; the Japansky, the Kotic, and the Nada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8221;A new record for power boat racing in America was established yesterday, when in a thirty-two-mile race on the Hudson River the 100 horse-power auto boat Standard, fifty-nine feet in length, covered the course at an average of 19.67 nautical miles an hour, or 22.57 statute miles. The Standard covered the entire distance in 1:37:48. Her time is barely one-third of a mile less than was done by H. H. Rogers&#8217;s fast steam yacht Kanawha last Saturday when she won the Lysistrata Cup.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Excerpt transcribed from the New York Times &#8211; June 24, 1904, p. 7<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8221;The old Columbia Yacht Club staged a race on the Hudson River in June of 1904 which they called the Gold Cup. Three boats entered the race: Water Lily, Fiat l and Standard, which was driven by her co-owner Carl C. Riotte. Standard outdistanced her two opponents and averaged 23.613 mph in the best 32-mile heat then captured the race with an average speed of 23.160 mph!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Taken from Roostertails Unlimited: [1973] Chapter 2 &#8211; A Little History <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LbB1lIOCtos\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LbB1lIOCtos\" \/><\/object><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23-25, 1904. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Columbia Yacht Club on the Hudson River, West 86th Street, New York City Cameraman: G. W. Bitzer 1904 APBA Gold Cup [first running] The cameras point of view is likely from the judge&#8217;s stand, possibly from a yacht club basin or yacht mooring on or near West 86th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-powerboat","category-video-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26617,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26616\/revisions\/26617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}