Largest Outboard Motors Part Four: Evinrude 300 HP G2
Evinrude E-Tec G2 300 hp. motor is the only two stroke motor out of all the large horsepower outboard manufacturers. Boat propellers used are three blade boat prop for better...
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Mercury 350 horsepower Verado uses Mercury performance boat propellers Mercury has come out this year with their new Outboard Motor the 350 horsepower Verado. Using a 5.44 inch...
The Largest Outboard Motors Part Two: Yamaha F350
Stainless Steel Boat Props and the Yamaha F350 Outboard Motor/strong> Yamaha’s largest outboard is the four stroke V-8 aluminum block 350 horsepower F350. This is one...
The Largest Outboard Motors Part One: The Suzuki DF300AP
Outboard motors have progressed down thru the years in all aspects of performance, horsepower and boat propellers have led the way. Suzuki’s most powerful motor offered...
Volvo Penta forward drive boat propeller
Volvo Penta has come out with a duo prop stern drive made for wake surfing. The Volvo Penta boat propellers are forward of the drive instead of behind it and are over two feet...
Two Boat Propeller Sterndrives
Volvo Penta was first to come out with a sterndrive with a single boat propeller in 1959 and they were first with a sterndrive that has two counter rotating boat propellers on a...
Disappearing Boat Propellers
The Dis-Pro Boat Company located in Canada produced an inboard style wooden boat between 1914 and 1926 (and some were built up into the 1950’s) known as the...
The First Mercruiser Sterndrive
When Volvo Penta’s sterndrive became an instant success at the January 1959 New York boat show, Mercury came out with their own sterndrive as fast as they could and called...
The First Sterndrives and their Propellers
Sterndrives have the engine inside the boat connected to a drive unit and boat propellers located outside the boat, at the transom. The bottom of the drive unit looks like the...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Fourteen
Modern Outboard Motors. Mercury, Evinrude, Honda, Yamaha, Suzuki and Tohatsu-Nissan are the companies that make the outboards today. All make boat propellers in aluminum, and...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Thirteen
The 1970’s, 80’s and 90’s. By the 1970’s outboard motors had evolved into tried and true basic designs and systems that carried over for decades with minor...
The History of Outboard Motors – Part Twelve
Japanese outboard motors. Honda, Suzuki, Tohatsu/Nissan and Yamaha are the Japanese companies that manufacture outboard motors. They all started out making other motorized things...