Speedboat record attempt fails
(From Out Own Reporter)
NELSON.
The New Zealand speedboat record-holder, D. Cameron, of Nelson, failed at two attempts on the Australasian record of 154 miles an hour at Picton this week-end.
Wash from some of the many craft which lined the flying kilometre course on Picton harbour deterred Cameron from using the full power potential of Miss Print IV on Saturday morning, and over the double run the boat reached 147 m.p.h. Two weeks earlier, on Lake Rotoiti, he set a New Zealand record of 149.13 m.p.h. At 5 a.m. yesterday morning he tried again, and this time the event was unpublicised. Conditions were perfect for the attempt but again he was unable to get his 19ft 6in hydroplane above
the 147 m.pJi. mark. "I seemed to be going very fast and everyone thought it would be about 160 miles an hour. However, the boat throttled off a couple of times and I did not get the best from -her,” Cameron said later.
He intended to make a third attempt but abandoned this when he found he was losing oil pressure/ This was later traced to a faulty gauge. “I’m going to leave it alone for a while now. I will probably have another go later, depending on how the others get on,” he said.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32788, 13 December 1971, Page 28
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