It must be pumpkin season.... everything pumpkin flavored is getting mentioned on facebook, even Pumpkin seed boats (three-point hydroplanes from the 50s and 60s) raced on the Illinois and Mississippi rivers


Tom Lenkman and his wife, Lou, discovered a vintage ‘pumpkin seed’ craft washed up along a dock near their St. Charles, Missouri home among debris from the Great Flood of 1993.

All hardware — including the Mercury Mark 20H outboard motor on the now refurbished boat — was with it when it was rescued.

The boat spent the next 14 years hanging from rafters. The was restored by a boat club.

https://www.acbs.org/pumpkin-seed-boats-historically-full-thrills-spills/
http://www.thetelegraph.com/news/97155/pumpkin-seed-boats-historically-full-of-thrills-spills-restored-vessel-exhibited-at-grafton-visitor-center

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