Hydros Up-Close Miss University 1957

[@charleslawrence429]

He came to speak to our cub scout pack ... and he was sure this was going to be the next revolution in hydros!!

[@finscreenname]

Wow, ambitious. 400hp and expecting 120+ mph That was like one of the best interviews I have even seen.

[@ucprof2008]

Maybe he should have proposed this tub to the Navy for a submarine.

[@azdave1000]

I was there on this day....great to see it. Miss U was never actually able to reach plane.

[@olsonspeed]

Thanks for posting this historic hydroplane Interview.

[@timothymattson3680]

The Miss U is getting a makeover before hung from ceiling of Kent , Wa. Hydroplane and Raceboat Museum . Models don’t scale up well . A 16” pitch prop doesn’t sound right, My Safeboat prototype could turn a 21” p if empty but the stock pitch of most 45mph fishing boats is around 17” . Race water on 3 rd lap would have been deadly . I picture a Lawn Dart on the water had it reached liftoff speed . Is cool to look at

[@craigmclean8260]

Thanks for posting this! I'd always wondered about some of the more oddball designs; this one looks fast on the trailer; I wonder how it would've performed w/ a Ranger V-770 V-12 instead...

[@bigharrykochenbauls4567]

More like miss U-Boat

[@darrenicon5172]

Dude build a small test rig model first to see if it works never go full scale straight up. 🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙆‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️🙅‍♂️

[@briansharp4388]

He did, said they worked great.

[@miketee2444]

Yep, models are always a great idea but anyone that has ever set out to go fast on the water finds out,,, there are all sorts of things that should work but don't. Testing full scale is the ultimate deciding factor and MPH can be really hard to come by.

[@watervolt]

I talked with him at the Seattle Boat Show in 1956. He was building the hull then, and had successfully tested a tether-line model and was in the process of building the boat itself then. The tether-model worked but I think it only worked because the tether and centrifugal force at speed kept it upright. The boat had a very small planing surface, and didn’t have the lift capacity of the trapped-air flying hulls it was competing against. I didn’t think it could reach plane, and it didn’t. When Swenson moved to California he took the boat with him, and reworked it until it eventually planed, but it never got much above 70 mph. After his passing the boat was given to the Hydroplane Museum in Seattle.