Peter Lambert, long time president of the MPBA, competed in tethered hydro racing with 5 and 10cc boats and straight running with a huge, steam powered destroyer. Peter, in collaboration with Ken Hyder proposed a standard design of hull for 5 and 10cc motors, known as the Lambert/Hyder. His hydros were all named after dances of the time, hence Rhumba in all its versions. Pauline Husbands was a fellow St Alban's club and unusual as one of the very few female hydro runners in the history of the sport. She used an identical Lambert/Hyder boat, also with an ETA 29 motor than she named Ch-Cha. Both 5cc and 10cc Rhumba boats are still in existence.

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