The Racing Days

In

the

late

1940's

George

Giguere

was

involved

with

the

local

racing

club

and

coming

out

this

relationship

was

a

few

small

racing

boats

that

George

and

a

few

of

his

close

friends

and

racing

partners

built

at

Aroline's

Factory.

The

design,

I

am

told,

appears

to

come

from

a

"Snyder"

design,or

possibly

a

"De

Silva".

There

were

only

4

of

these

boats

that

are

known

to

have

been

built

in

aluminum

at

Aroline.

The

owners

of

these

boats

were

George

Giguere,

Fenton

Malley

whose

boat

is

pictured

below,

Gordon

Fanstone,

and

Bud

Duffy.

They

appear

to

have

all

been

lost

except

for

Fenton

Malley's

boat

which

his

son

Terry

was

kind

enough

to

let

me

photograph.

If

you

read

this

and

know

where

another

one

of

these

is

please

contact

me

so

I

can

catalog

it

for

the

Aroline

history

page

coming

soon.

I'm

hoping

to

get

more

pictures

of

these

racers

in

their

glory

days.

Winnipeg

was

a

hotbed

of

Outboard

Racing

activity

particularily

from

1950-1955,

and

I'm

told

that

these

4

boats

were

the

ones

to

beat.

They

all

ran

a

Mercury KG-9 with a "Quickie".

WG8 Owned By Terry Malley (3 images)