1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Regatta
Lake Washington, Seattle, WA, July 3-10, 1909

Motor Boats to Speed Up Today
EXPOSITION RACES ON
Fastest Power Launches on Coast Entered for World’s Championship
Ten and Twelve-Meter Classes—Start in Union Bay

A.-Y.-P. Exposition Speed Boat Regatta Fast Speed-boats Will Start on the Lake Tomorrow Motor-boats to Speed Up Today Wolff II Fast in Speed-boat Race Captain Spencer Talks About Wonderful Run of Wolff II Wolff II and Pacer Win Races Wolff II Again Defeats Pacer Portland Motor Boat is Sure-Enough Flyer Thirty-Two-Foot Class Motor Boats Race Today Wolff II Wins in Final Heat Wolff II of Portland Again Defeats Pacer Endurance Motor Boat Race Today Fast Motor Boat Breaks Propeller Pacer Breaks Propeller and has to Quit Race Exposition Races at Seattle Regatta of the Northwestern International Yacht Racing Association on Puget Sound Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Speed Boat Regatta

With literally thousands of dollars bet by rival boat owners and intense interest excited, the exposition motor boat races will open today on Lake Washington. Speed boat skippers from all up and down the Coast are ready to send out their gasoline marvels for the ten days of racing.

The programme today starts at 2 o’clock, and includes two of the biggest events of the meeting, the world’s championship races in the ten-meter and twelve-meter classes. For these special events some of the fastest power boats in the world are entered. Of unusual interest will be the race between Eddie Roesch’s Pacer, of Seattle. And the Wolff II, of Portland, in the twelve-meter class.

(Excerpts transcribed from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 3, 1909, p. 11.)

[Thanks to Greg Calkins for help in preparing this page --LF]

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