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 “Dippy” that you could raise the drive shaft and boat propeller up into the bottom of the boat using a manual hand lever while under way so you could avoid hitting stuff like rocks and...
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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 gearcase of an outboard engine and in most cases really is. It is attached to a drive-shaft housing that is connected through the transom to the engine which transmits power through...
Read MoreThe 1960’s. OMC and Mercury continued the competition between themselves as the leaders of the industry. Other outboard motor makers such as Homelite and Scott-Atwater ( McCulloch ) were less popular and sold far less units than the big two. This decade saw fiberglass boats sales explode and wood pleasure boats started to disappear. Mercury...
Read MoreFiberglass boats are low maintenance and durable. They do not deteriorate and rot like a wooden boat will if is not maintained on a regular basis. It takes over a year for a working mold to be designed and made and is generally good to produce boats for five or more years. Improvements are always coming to the manufacturing process and improvements in...
Read MoreThe most frequently asked question we are asked about outboard and stern drive boat propellers is: What boat propeller should I be using on my boat? There are two reasons why people call us about getting a propeller for their boat. Customers either need a replacement boat prop for the one they have because they have damaged or lost their boat propeller,...
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