Show boat has wings arr the latest development in racing metor towboats boata boats Is a craft capable ot of making from 60 to 80 miles an hour and equipped with wings that are designed to catch the water just as the wings ot of an aeroplane catch the air this boat is 19 teet feet 9 inches long lone and 12 feet wide over all each ot of the wings being 3 teet feet wide and the hull 6 feet wide it Is equipped with a horsepower racing engine which ordinarily runs at 1500 revolutions a minute and drives the propeller at 2250 revolutions a minute or one and a halt half times its own speed one of the novel features of the boat is that the rudder is at the bow while the helmsman sits at the stern with this arrangement the boat is easily handled at any speed one effect of the bow rudder being that the boat in making a turn nas has a tendency to pivot around the rudder A picture of this unusual craft is published in the october popular Af mechanics magazine |