Facts about Evinrude/Johnson racing outboards made my OMC

[Mark Poole ModVP]

Reverse hydros could be fast in a straight line but would lose all of their speed in the turns on a course running laps. They work extremely well in radio control model racing. (with inboard engines)

[lars strom]

Jack Aylsworth

Group expert / All-star contributor

1920’s Racing Champ Helen Hentschel ran Evinrude, Johnson & Lockwood


Helen, a New York native, was a serious competitor running the top performance engines from all three brands in various classes. She is shown here early in her racing career in Miss Circuit Rider powered by a Johnson (photo lower left) for the President's Cup on the Potomac River. She pilots her Evinrude Speeditwin powered Miss RC Century racer (upper right) on Lake Templiner in Germany where she won the Class “B” Outboard Races at an average speed of 28.7 mph. Helen is also shown at the USA International Motor Boat Race with a Johnson TR-40 Racer (photo center) in 1928 and with Lockwood Chief power (photo lower right), also that year.

Timeline – Lockwood was part of the merger of Evinrude and Elto in 1929. Johnson joined OMC in 1935 - so all of Hentschel’s featured racing photos were before the OMC founding. It’s unclear if Helen was sponsored by any of the engine brands, but certainly possible.

[lars strom]

John-Brenda Sheldon
OMC paying me after I left for a patent. Their patent assignment policy was

"$1.00 and other valuable considerations"

[22R]

I doubt you was the cause of em going broke!

22R

[lars strom]

Interesting comment from OMC's Jim Nerstrom who was part of the deal..

[lars strom]

Thanks Hot Boat Magazine.

[WaterZebra]

Interesting comment from OMC's Jim Nerstrom who was part of the deal..

No surprise here. The people providing the $$$ get to make the decisions and determine the outcome. F1 boat racing was never going to be as big a show as F1 auto racing. Boat racing was always a novel summer side show for many people. Chances are that if the boat clearly won, the future of F1 boat racing would have been different?

[lars strom]

Thanks Scott Goldman.

[lars strom]

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[lars strom]

...Bond..James..!!

[WaterZebra]

...Bond..James..!!

Aside from the jump itself another neat trick they did with the Evinrude 135 was to rig a cooling discharge line thru the cowling to simulate a bullet hole. I wonder how many beach skid tries it took to get the 2 bad guys in the swimming pool?

[lars strom]

Johnson outboards 1977.

[lars strom]

More Johnson outboards 1977...even a few electric..!!

[lars strom]

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[Rotary John]