George Reis tested his boat, El Lagarto, (The Lizard) in Lake George before winning the Gold Cup for three consecutive years in the 1930’s. A sign marks the spot where he lived, on the road that leads to the Sagamore resort.
The Gold Cup is the oldest active trophy in all of motorboat racing. Bolton Landing resident, George Reis, would capture the Gold Cup in 1933, 1934, and 1935 in a boat he tested on Lake George. The Lizard flew by Huletts Landing while it was being tested, in route to trouncing the competition in those years.
In another little known fact about the Gold Cup, boat designer Christopher Columbus Smith (of the Chris Craft boat company) captured the Gold Cup in 1915 in a boat that topped the elusive 60 miles-per-hour speed barrier.