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Originally Posted by John Doe
......I think the 1922 record was broken by the CC Packard that topped out at 45 mph or so (The boat is in Jacksonville, FLA, but I will have to google to find it)
Edit: My friends' was the record for a six cyl. 20 ft. apparently. It looks like they had 12 cyl. CC Packards around 1925 that made 500 hp and topped out at 55-60 but I don't know what lenghts.
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The robber barons had "Express Cruisers" that they would use to get from their estates up the Hudson and on Long Island Sound in to Manhattan. I don't know how fast they went but they were the fastest things going between the wars. Some had double and triple section steam turbines. The wake of one boat caused such damage to the shoreline that the boat owner was sued by the person with the damaged shoreline. That must have been some wake.
