Out in Coneaut Lake ,PA there is a boat that was built back in the 20's
that at the time was going for the world's speed record for on water ,
this was a Mahogany boat with a Liberty V-8 prototype airplane engine
,nobody knows how he got it since it was the design basis for the
militaries V-12 Liberty they put in their aircraft,
but anyway he had mounted this engine in a specially built wooden boat
with a front rudder
and when he went to take it out for its maiden voyage he hit a wake in
the lake and the boat flipped and it sank ,well thats where 50-60 years
later some divers found the boat and raised it and when they flipped
over back on shore they removed the oil drain plug waiting to see water
to come out ,but luckily nothing but oil came out a miracle in itself
for sitting on the bottom for almost 60 years,well the spent a few years
restoring it back to original and then when it was finished they decided
to take it out for a run one time before putting it in storage,
they had a newer speed boat for a chase boat and they went off across
the lake well a couple minutes later the brand new chase boat was
calling on the radio to slow down he can't keep up .
It's amazing how fast some of this stuff from the early part of the
century actually could go
in comparison to some of our stuff today .
A lil side note that Liberty V-8 was only of 3 known to exist ,one was
in a private collection ,one is in the smithsonian ,but the one in the
boat is the only one to actually start and run
and it is a beautifully built machine ,I count myself lucky to be able
to have gotten to see it.