Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:12:40 GMT, Don White
wrote:


Read a short article in the local paper. The guy said 2005 was the
100th anniversary of the outboard motor. They weren't common though
until Ole Evinrude developed his version a few years later.


Evinrude - amazing idea he had I'll tell you what. :)

There is a guy over in Putnam who has one of the original Evinrudes
along with a, get this, Indian outboard.

Indian outboard??? Made by the motorcycle people?

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 22:34:00 GMT, Don White
wrote:

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 01:12:40 GMT, Don White
wrote:


Read a short article in the local paper. The guy said 2005 was the
100th anniversary of the outboard motor. They weren't common though
until Ole Evinrude developed his version a few years later.


Evinrude - amazing idea he had I'll tell you what. :)

There is a guy over in Putnam who has one of the original Evinrudes
along with a, get this, Indian outboard.

Indian outboard??? Made by the motorcycle people?

The very same - has two of them.

One of the neat things about those old outboards is that you could
flip them into reverse by changing the timing advance.

Pretty cool.