Fresh insight on a classic powerboat spectacle

Designer, artist, and long-time Weltch Media collaborator, David Hopkins has offered a fresh insight into a major motorsport event half a century ago.

The World Powerboat Championships were held in Cardiff Docks in 1975, and Dave has captured the event's thrills, dangers, and quirks in a guest post on our award-winning companion hyperlocal site, Rhiwbina Info.

Dave was an art student at the time, and he focused on the championships for a design project over the summer of 1975.

In words and photos, Dave captures the racing itself and the backdrop - Cardiff's once thriving docklands, then in a sad state, many years before the investment and gentrification, which created the new-look Cardiff Bay.

"Some of the photographs I took show the wasteland that Cardiff docks used to be, but even though the quality and sharpness may not be what I had hoped for, it was all part of the learning experience" he wrote.

"And they provide a record that wouldn’t otherwise exist".

You can read his recollection and see more of the fascinating photos here.

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