The Sinking Of The OutBoard Marine Corporation -

[FUJIMO]

...She donated many different large parcels of land that she assembled, as she loved & lived in the area...

[FUJIMO]

...This particular spot was where she lived with Ralph Evinrude and was on a higher bluff elevation, was 53 acres with a excellent view overlooking the St. Lucie River...She donated this large parcel to the city there & thought it would be used as a park for the people in the area as the other pieces were, before she died...

[FUJIMO]

...Instead, the city saw the monetary value to sell it, and the future endless tax revenues, and sold the entirety to a home developer... But hey, they did put the name Evinrude on one of the streets. What a shame.

[Steve G]

When she donated it she should of put deed restrictions on it. I don't trust local government. Or any Gov. for that matter.

[Instigator]

Yeah like an O/B on a bracket.
That will never work.

this helped omc - not really -

[Instigator]

What year was this and what did your god offer then?

this helped omc - not really.

[Instigator]

Pathetic.
Never mind.

Continue the bashing w/your eyes closed.

[vintage v4]

finally, after the above cobra drives gearsets failed & replaced with yet another completely new designed cone-clutch omc sterndrive, this helped. not really. omc comepletely gave up in that market & sold all their sterndrive rights to Volvo Penta in 1993. genius. is was last design.

I made that cutaway......I'm not kidding.

[David]

Charlie Strang, then at Mercury, invented the stern drive. It’s surprising OMC did not do better with it. Patents I suppose.

[powerabout]

I made that cutaway......I'm not kidding.

that was certainly a beefy drive

[vintage v4]

that was certainly a beefy drive

Yes that one is an early prototype with sand cast housings. By production a lot of changes were made.
I actually built a couple of drives with coned lowers for an offshore race.

[Capt.Insane-o]

The cobras weren't a terrible design. The shift mech could be wonky a little and the oil fill procedure killed a lot of them but anything was better than the 400/800 mess.

[Chaz]

Yeah like an O/B on a bracket.
That will never work.

I knew I seen that tilt/trim mechanism before ....

[powerabout]

what ya talking about willis, that was offshore race ready ram as was the hydraulic steering

[FUJIMO]

Yeah like an O/B on a bracket.
That will never work.

...OMC did not invent, or was the first to manufacture, an outboard bracket...and neither was Scott-Atwater for that matter...