If you doubt that women are taking an important part in motorboat activities, take a look around at any important motorboat regatta. In the crowds, on the yacht club lines, and other vantage points for witnessing the races, you will see as many men as women. On practically every cruiser or runabout in the spectator fleet, gathered around the course, you will see the same state of affairs.
 

It is out on the racecourse itself, however, that you will notice the most spectacular evidence of their entrance into this fast-growing sport. Motorboat racing is not for the meek, whether you do it in a runabout, a cruiser, a 2000 horsepower hydroplane, or a leaping, slewing outboard. It is a rough business and it calls for cool, calm courage, a lot of downright skill and a high degree of mechanical knowledge. It requires a hard, healthy body and a disregard of the bruising abuse that comes to all drivers of all types of racing boats when the water is even moderately rough.
 

Even more surprising are the great number of women that are driving the most arduous types of boats, the outboards and the 151s.  In fact, so many of them are of championship caliber, they have time and again beaten the best men pilots in the classes in which they compete.
 

This year the women have come out in force, have won races in galore in all parts of the country and have gained the utmost respect from their competitors and everybody else connected with this hectic sport – from the time Mildred Hickey of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts won the long race from Albany in the runabout class with a little 40 horsepower Dodge to the national outboard championship at Oakland, California in which Hilda Mueller walked off with the national championship for the second successive year. [3]