{"id":698,"date":"2018-08-20T20:57:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/?p=698"},"modified":"2018-09-20T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T21:46:09","slug":"inventing-the-outboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/inventing-the-outboard\/","title":{"rendered":"Inventing the Outboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/inventing-the-outboard\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Summer of 1905-ish, Ole and Mrs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evinrude.com\">Evinrude<\/a> were picnicking on Lake Okauchee in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Ole was sent for ice cream, and he rowed to shore, and bought the ice cream.\u00a0 By the time he got back to the family, the dessert had melted.\u00a0 Ole, the machinist and combustion-engine tinkerer, was a bit irritated.\u00a0 In 1907, he came up with a 1.5 horse transom-mounted gasoline powered outboard motor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ole-e1534795149404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Ole-e1534795149404.jpg\" alt=\"Ole\" width=\"131\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a>In 1911, he patented his invention, and in 1913 sold his interest to his partner in the Evinrude Motor Corporation.\u00a0 After five years off, he introduced a 3 hp aluminum model that weighed 48 pounds.\u00a0 He then joined forces in 1929 with his old company and Johnson Motor Company, and created the small boat revolution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can still buy a two-cylinder Evinrude &#8211; or one with up to 300 horsepower.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Summer of 1905-ish, Ole and Mrs. Evinrude were picnicking on Lake Okauchee in Wisconsin. Ole was sent for ice cream, and he rowed to shore, and bought the ice cream.\u00a0 By the time he got back to the family, the dessert had melted.\u00a0 Ole, the machinist and combustion-engine tinkerer, was a bit irritated.\u00a0 In&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/inventing-the-outboard\/\">Read more: Inventing the Outboard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[52,131,129,130],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-content","category-uncategorized","tag-forespar","tag-inventing","tag-outboard","tag-small-boat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.forespar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}