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motorboating

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Also known as: powerboating, speedboating

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development of motorboat

In motorboat: History.
In 1903 Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe) donated to the Royal Motor Yacht Club the British International Trophy for Motor Boats, popularly called the Harmsworth Cup (q.v.), which has been intermittently contested for by international teams since that year. In 1904 the American Power Boat…
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first turbine-powered boat

In Chip Hanauer
…pioneer, drove the first turbine-powered boat, which broke the one-lap record by 7 mph (11 km/hr) at 140.8 mph (226 km/hr) in 1984; he introduced the closed cockpit a year later. The closed cockpit, which became mandatory, helps prevent drowning in blow-over accidents (the type that killed Muncey), in which…
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