After it posted the top qualifying time Friday, Oh Boy! Oberto owner Erick Ellstrom said there were a “million things” that could go wrong before a U-16 win in the Albert Lee Appliance Cup. It ...

For most of the last decade, the Ellstrom team was battling with Oh Boy! Oberto to be the top hydroplane in the H1 Unlimited Fleet.

Art Oberto wanted to ride in a hydroplane and have it go as fast as his age of 88 years. The Oh Boy Oberto patriarch’s boat topped out at 130 mph.

Oh Boy! Oberto Cocktail Pep is available in many forms: the foot-long I associate with gas stations, the slightly shorter and more slender Long Shot, and its bitty brother, the Short Stop.

Oberto’s hydroplane legacy dates to 2000, when the Oh Boy! Oberto entrepreneur bought the rights to slap his logo on the Miss Madison boat. The Oh Boy!

SEATTLE – Steve David drove Oh Boy! Oberto to an upset victory in the Chevrolet Cup at Seafair race on Sunday on Lake Washington, handing favored Dave Willwock his first loss of the unlimited ...

Steve David's U-1 Oh Boy Oberto championship Unlimited Hydroplane will be the favorite to repeat as the circuit's champion in 2009. (Photo courtesy ABRA) (The Spokesman-Review) Doug Pace ...

The roar of this weekend's Seafair hydroplane races on Lake Washington heralds technological changes in a six-decade-old Seattle tradition.

U-5 driver Jeff Bernard raced very well in the qualifying heats to earn a spot in the final with the points-leading U-1 Oh Boy! Oberto, with the gap narrowed to a mere 106 points between the two ...

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