The Motor Boat Boys, by Louis Arundel, is a series of adventure books for boys. The series featured six teen boys of the Motor Boat Club, and their adventures on various waterways. There were just five in the bunch, dusty, tired fellows, all on the way home from a most exciting game with a rival team, and the most bitter rivals for supremacy in the little river town along the upper Mississippi.Besides Buster and Jack, there were the Irish lad, Jimmie Brannagan, who lived with the Stormways, being something of a ward of Jack's father; Herb Dickson, and George Rollins, all of them members of the high school team.These five boys, with the addition of another who was not present just then, composed the membership of a motor boat club, and between them owned three very clever craft. George's was a narrow speedboat, called the Wireless, the powerful engine of which had a faculty for getting out of order just when most wanted. The one of which Jack was skipper was named the Tramp, and while not so fast as its dangerous competitor, could still make great time. Herb possessed a commodious launch, which he had very wisely christened the Comfort, for she was as staunch and reliable as a houseboat.During the preceding autumn, taking advantage of the school being closed until New Year's because of an epidemic in the town, these boys had made a long trip down the Mississippi river to New Orleans, being given permission by their parents or guardians.