| | Event type
B-Class (Under 60 feet), Open
| Date | 28 August 1908 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Southampton Water, Southampton | |
| Participants | 5 from 1 countries | |
| Format | Five laps of a course of approximately 8 nautical miles for a total distance of 40 nautical miles. | |
This class was limited to motorboats less than 60 feet in length, and with a total piston area not exceeding that of four cylinders, each of 106 mm. bore. It has not previously been published in a book that women competed in this sport, but The Times noted, “. . . it is worthy of special remark as an example of feminine endurance that Mrs. Gorham was also on board.”
| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Time | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gyrinus |  GBR | 2-28:58.8 | Gold | |||||
| Thomas Thornycroft • Bernard Redwood • John Field-Richards | |||||||||
| Quicksilver | GBR | – | |||||||
| John Gorham • Sophia Gorham | |||||||||