The Sinking Of The OutBoard Marine Corporation -

[XstreamVking]

South west fla has a series of stilt houses in Pine Isl sound. I stay out there a few times a year. It's very cool...

[powerabout]

You guys do have the Edison / Ford Museum. Which I try to go when I'm over that way ..

A couple places over here on this side ... Miami Marine stadium .. should be put back as intended .. when The Matheson family donated the property.



OMC test center .. I know the land is way to valuable ... But it would have been nice if BRP would have kept at least part of it. During it's heyday, they kept test boats running up and down the river. No whiney don't you know who I am people could get speed limits put in place .. OMC had a business to run ...

When property developers are richer than industrialists, your country is going into a slow demise...
You dont see it in GDP but you wonder why you have no money.

[keith scotton]

When I went to work at Drydock Marine a Johnson Dealer in 1986 they had 2 very large boxes full of Spirt and Suzuki parts. Dan the owner said OMC told them US or them. At that time Johnson sold better so that was the way he went. He also said Suzuki parts were very hard to get at that time.

[David]

"When property developers are richer than industrialists, your country is going into a slow demise...
You don't see it in GDP but you wonder why you have no money."

Waterfront property is an exception. It used to be that industry needed/wanted to be located on waterfront. Now road access and to a lesser extent rail access is far more important than waterfront. In both Windsor where I lived for a long time, and Orillia the closest city now, all the waterfront had transitioned from industrial to recreational or residential.

It does concern me that marina's are selling out to condo developers.

[powerabout]

I wonder if its the jones act that stops exporters being on the waterfront so all goods need to be transported to a large port as foreign ships can only do a single port stop?

[Chaz]

Power ol boy,

Not sure who Jonesy is, or what their act entails. But I can tell you that growing up in Miami .. that there were a multitude of inport~export shallow water, dimly lit, ports of entry into the United States that operated with the upmost efficiency ...

Todays hysteresis in the supply chain is directly related to FJB ..

[powerabout]

Power ol boy,

Not sure who Jonesy is, or what their act entails. But I can tell you that growing up in Miami .. that there were a multitude of inport~export shallow water, dimly lit, ports of entry into the United States that operated with the upmost efficiency ...

Todays hysteresis in the supply chain is directly related to FJB ..

Those ports were import only...lol

[Chaz]

Those ports were import only...lol

In those days .. there was no pay-pal and bank transfers were a no-no. So I'd say those same ports exported .. stacks of green paper ..

[mr fun]

the Jones act protects American jobs Period . being an American Merchant Seaman I know first hand how they can exploit homeless indogent people to work for 2.50 a day when i make 250.00 a day. thats just for starters . sailing on our glourious merchant fleet is an honor as I expeienced during Desert siege and Desert storm , thank you

[Chaz]

Mr. Fun,
Thanks for the clarification ..

I rekkon that the Jones act is one more law we can throw on the pile that FJB has broken ... *^$%%& shame ..

[FUJIMO]

...i came up with that slogan when i was in the business back in the 80's/90's. years later, in 2005, i posted it to a midnight thread on offshoreonly. shortly after, a gentleman that goes by enforcer2 on offshoreonly found an old 37 midnight that had never been rigged, scraped together four 3.0 mercury outboards & rigged the boat out pretty nicely. he was searching for midnight express stickers to finish the rig job out, but couldn't find anything. he always remembered my old post & decided to have those large logo/stickers made & slapped them on his new pride & joy...

[H2OPERF]

Pretty cool, Did you work on the Night Flight

[FUJIMO]

...yeah, sure...... man did this thread go south...

[FUJIMO]

...omc waukegan illinois left the u.s. taxpayers with one of the top three largest superfund sites in u.s. history. remediation costing many tens of millions...

[FUJIMO]