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Post your Resume. Each motor produced 1. Bess was not only Ole Evinrude's muse, she became his partner in life and business. Bess managed the office, customer relations and marketing, while Ole oversaw design and manufacturing.
Within two years, the couple had a son and had established Evinrude as an international brand. Despite the company's growth, Ole sold the business in because of his wife's poor health. By , the family had settled in New Orleans, Bess was recovered, and Ole and their son, Ralph, were working on a new engine design: the Ruddertwin. The business saw immediate success, and Ralph encouraged his father to build a more powerful engine — something for more than fishing.
At the boat show, Evinrude unveiled an hp motor that could take boats to 35 mph. The Giuseppina was still equipped with a sail, which had an auxiliary role. In , Ole Evinrud had invented the first outboard engine. This momentous yacht-building invention had a very interesting story to tell: Ole was out rowing a boat to get ice-cream for his wife but the ice-cream melted while he was rowing. This is when he had the idea of mounting compact engines on ordinary rowing boats.
As early as , outboard boat motors went on sale. Two world wars led to the main recreational boat manufacturers working for government contracts. After the World War II, a ban on yacht building was imposed in a number of countries.
The situation normalized only by the middle of the century. In , after a long break, the Feadship yard launched the metre motor yacht Ibis with Perkins diesel engines. In the s Perkins diesels were used in the Thames river police fleet. In , the company Yanmar managed to create the first small diesel engine. To solve the weight problem, Japanese developed high-strength cast iron with spheroidal graphite and increased engine speed by reducing the stroke of the piston.
The first «small» diesel engine still weighed kg, but over the years the technology has been improved and refined. The result was a series of engines under the K from the German Klein designation. These diesel engines with output from 1 to 7 hp weighed a little more than 50 kg.
By the mid 50's, Yanmar was producing compact marine diesel engines, which could be equipped with yachts. This is how diesels came to boats. In , Jim Wynne in his garage in Miami assembled the first turntable. Volvo Penta bought the technology. Volvo improved on Wynne's idea by turning the propeller on the nose.
This type of tilt-turn propeller started to be fitted on wakesurfing boats. Mercury Marine joined the production of tilt-up propellers, and they quickly captured the market for small powerboats and supplanted the outboard engines.
This was the 5. It was Benz's idea to build fiberglass boats, though at first it was dismissed as a ridiculous fantasy. Today a vast majority of not only motor but also sailing yachts are built in GRP glass reinforced plastic. By the s the motoryacht market had acquired a modern face. Many accounts claim the history of boating for sport can be traced back to the s — and once the United States was formed much of the boating industry has risen and fallen with key points of American history.
The earliest history of recreational boating begins with kings and royal regattas on the Thames River in the mids. Before he took the throne in , he spent ten years in exile in Holland. When he returned home to take the throne, he was welcomed with a generous gift of a yacht and a crew. King Charles II spent time sailing on the Thames.
You might say he was a serious recreational boater — many historians estimate he went on to build 20 yachts throughout his life. His passion for pleasure boats sparked interest from many others, and can likely be traced to another monumental point in pleasure boat history — the first sailing club.
Imagine a time without marinas or boat clubs. While boating became an activity enjoyed by many of the elite members of society, there was no formal space for them to gather. Eventually, in the early s, many of these yachtsmen came together and formed the first sailing club in the world — a significant part of the history of sailing. Either way, this was a key point in the history of recreational boating. Shifting the focus to domestic history, in the United States, the first boating club was founded in in Detroit, followed just six years later by one in New York.
Up until this point in history, boating was synonymous with sailing or rowing. It was a lot of work — and much of the work was done by a crew hired by the wealthy individual who owned the boat. But all of that changed in the late s when Gottlieb Daimler, a German engineer and inventor, created an improved version of the internal combustion engine — not only for automobiles but boats, too. This engine completely revolutionized the industry, as it took a lot of the hard work — or the need to hire a crew to do the hard work — out of boating.
Of course, with motorboats come racing. In , the world came together for the first international motorboat race of its kind, the Harmsworth Cup, formally known as the British International Trophy for Motorboats.
An Englishman won, racing his motorboat at a speed of By , outboard motors were manufactured, making it possible for boaters to put the engine on their boat, remove it for service or transportation, and then reattach it or attach it to another boat.
This new versatility led to making recreational boating more accessible and economical to the public. Just a few years later, the recreational boating industry sped up when American inventor John L. Hacker created a boat known as the Kitty Hawk. For those who recognize the name — yes, he knew the Wright Brothers. This cutting-edge boat became the first boat to travel at a speed of 50 miles per hour. The merger of a few companies in the outboard motor business come together to form the Outboard Motors Corporation.
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