Outboard ultimate speed record

[Mark75H]

Individual class records will be bounced out to their own threads, this thread is the top speed record only.

I have never seen a listing like this in any magazine or book. To my knowledge it is the first and original outboard speed record list.

The earliest recorded official outboard race I have found documentation on was held in Monaco in 1905. The winner was a French made Motogodile.

The next official race was won by another French made motor in 1913, a Lutetia

Next I will include a very unofficial but obvious event ... few people know that the first outboard to push a boat over its planing wake is a known event. In 1921 Clay Conover was test running a new motor for his father on a small boat, went completely over the hump and probably went a scorching 14 mph.

The officially recorded & recognized, timed, measured course events start here:

1924 11 mph
1925 16.68 mph
1925 23.32 mph
1926 25 mph
1926 32.14 mph
1928 37.3 mph
1928 41 mph - last record before the 60 cubic inch era
1928 48 mph set by Passarin with a Laros motor
1930 49
1930 50.799
1930 52.09 Charles Henry Harrison of the UK, Elto motor, boat named Non Sequitor
1931 52.564
1931 54.6
1931 55.336 Soriano 4 cylinder (smaller than 60 ci)
1931 55.4
1932 58.91
1932 59.462 first record by a Soriano 6
1934 65.21
1935 69.383
1936 72.05
1936 74.39
1938 78.121 Bedford Davie with the Draper X motor
1939 78.44 Clint Ferguson with the Eldredge motor
1939 79.04 Soriano 6
1953 83.474 Soriano 6 on a Molinari built Swift 3 point
1954 100.387 Lesco 4 on the same boat
1958 107.82 modified Mercury Mark75H prototype Hu Entrop, prop riding hull
1960 114.65 Hu Entrop with V-4
1960 115.547 Burt Ross modified production Mark75H Jones hydro, last 60 cubic inch
1960 122.96 Entrop with V-4
1966 130.929
1966 131.051 Walin in Entrop/MacDonald with V-4 (one way 133+)
1973 136.381 Merten with 99 cubic inch Merc 6 carb 2 pipe
1982 137.96
1982 139.66
1983 144.16
1986 165.338
1986 169.531
1989 176.556 Bob Wartinger Evinrude V-8

If you know some of the details of each record or errors please help me out

PS: to those who copy this without attributing it to BRF and me ... there may be deliberate errors that show it is not your original research and what is the original source ... I do not want to see this elsewhere without credit ... it was a lot of work to compile from a ton of sources.