Outboard Engine Innovations

Two fledgling companies look to revolutionize the outboard market with two new products on either end of the horsepower spectrum.

2011 Engines Review - Outboard

The Alpha Outboard

A group of Midwestern engineers think they’ve built the great white shark of motors.

Is this evolution or revolution? That’s what I thought to myself when the press release in my Read Article

An outboard that runs on propane

Propane is nontoxic, it’s not a greenhouse gas, produces no evaporative emissions, and it will not damage marine life.

2011 Engines Review - Twin Disc

Master of Maneuverability

Twin Disc’s new joystick-control system may give those pod drives a run for their money.

Let’s begin this treatise on maneuverability on a historical note—or rather two of them. The first dates back to an enjoyable dinner I had with Bill Barry-Cotter in Australia several years ago. Barry-Cotter, of course, is Read Article

The Need for Speed