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Miss Wahoo Is Ahead of Schedule! |
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Thanks to very generous donations from Bill Boeing Jr., Scott Carson, Bruce McCaw and Joe Clark, the Hydroplane Museum is building a wonderful replica of the 1956 Miss Wahoo. The Wahoo was one of four identical boats built in the mid 1950s from the same Ted Jones design. The 1955 Miss Thriftway, the 1956 Shanty – I the Miss Wahoo and Miss Spokane were all built by Les Staudacher from Ted’s drawings. The Museum had a copy of the Shanty – I plans in our archives and turned them over to Ron Jones Sr. so that he could draw plans for Vashon Unlimited’s Miss Thriftway project. When Bill Boeing Jr. and Scott Carson saw how perfectly the Vashon Miss Thriftway turned out, they decided that they wanted to see a Miss Wahoo, so they approached the Museum with an offer to fund the boat if we agreed to build it.
Construction on the Miss Wahoo replica is moving ahead at a phenomenal pace. Ron Jones delivered the revised plans to the Museum on Saturday September 6th. Construction started on September 15th, the whole boat was framed up by Thanksgiving and we turned her right side up on February 3rd.
Led by 2001 Gold Cup winner Mike Hanson and Vashon Unlimited’s Larry Fuller, the volunteer Miss Wahoo construction team is doing a beautiful job recreating the beautiful U-77. The crew is currently installing systems and is scheduled to deck the boat in about a month. Plans call for the boat to be completed and on the water running this summer, so if you want to see first hand how a 1950’s vintage, wooden hydroplane was built (or better yet, if you want to be part of the construction team) don’t delay and come on down to the Museum today! For more construction photos of the Miss Wahoo, please visit misswahoo.com. |
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