speedboat

caption reads: Reliance V worlds champion....(unreadable) built by smith ryan co, Algonac, Mich photo taken nov 27th, in a 40 mile gale Date stamp is Feb 14, 1912 otherwise know as baby reliance v, she was a "hydroplane" racer, this being the smallest one, as the racers were placed in classes depending on their length, she raced several years for Commodore J S Blackton

Nudecowboy: thanks for alerting us to the fuller caption information. We've taken a second look ourselves and think the unreadable text reads: hydroplan[e]. We'll update our source data to include the fuller title, fix the date, then reload the description.

grace!

A little write up on his boat: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402E3DE1330E233A...

He looks downright giddy.

BLAMES DIXIE IV.'S CAPTAIN.; Justice Charges Burnham with Negligence and Cowardice in Bell Inquest. October 21, 1911, Saturday Page 1, 763 words BUFFALO, N.Y., Oct. 20. -- Criminal negligence and cowardice are charged against Frederick K. Burnham in the findings of Dr. R.A. Toms, Justice of the Peace of Tonawanda, who conducted the inquest into the death of Harold W. Bell, one of the persons fatally injured when Capt. Burnham's motorboat, the Dixie IV., ran ashore while competing in championship races here on Sept. 16. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E7DD1539E333A... MOTOR BOAT DIXIE IV. WRECKED ON ROCKS; Champion Craft Makes Wild Dash Into Crowd on Niagara River and Hurts Three. September 17, 1911, Sunday BUFFALO, N.Y., Sept. 16. -- Dixie IV., Frederick K. Burnham's speedy hydroplane, which successfully defended the Harmsworth Cup at Huntington, L.I., and on Friday won the championship of the United States on the Niagara River course, to-night lies a wreck on a narrow ridge of rock between the Niagara River and the Erie Canal, off Riverside Park. query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F02E1DD163CE633A...

I started an entry in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_K._Burnham