EVER FISH DETROIT RIVER

[ROBBY MEYERS]

what a great place to fish, beleive it or not the first outboard ever was made on that river and was bought out by evinrude henc the beginning of a great motor

[SEAHORSE]

I have a picture of an 1896 outboard motor and I think it was made in NY.

What motor are you referring to?

[ROBBY MEYERS]

i read a story of grosse ile island and it spoke of the man how invented this outboard out of a motor cycle engine and soon after sold the idea to evenrude cant remember the date but they claimed it as the fisrt or the begining of rude

If Ole Evinrude had ever seen an outboard motor before he assembled his first, more than likely it was a product of another inventor, Cameron B. Waterman. As Waterman said: In the winter of 1905, with chunks of ice, we drove a boat across the river with our motor. Then we knew it would work…In 1906 we made 25 of these motors and sold 24. In 1907 we sold 3000 and about the same number in 1908. Then in 1909 when the Evinrude Motor hit the market, our sales doubled, because that convinced people that we had a practicable machine and not a silly gadget.

[ROBBY MEYERS]

on the search engine type in grosse ile first outboard and this big article will come up

[ROBBY MEYERS]

they say its the first but who knows