Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In 1973, Albin Marin was sold to Pribo, and in 1982, Albin Marine filed for bankruptcy. The insolvency assets was bought to create Nya Albin Marin, and further boats were produced, later also by other boat builders. [2] [5] In 2008 the company's brand was purchased by an American company and it was used for a line of powerboats. [3] [4]
A review in Blue Water Boats concluded, "By all accounts the Vega under sail handles easily and is a well balanced creature with no weather helm. Despite her shallow draft she is reported to point well to windward and while tender initially up to around 10 to 15 degrees of heel she carries full sail easily up to 20 knots.
1959-1979: The Almar is in service. Almar was built in 1947 on Puget Island in the Columbia River, [3] where it served until moving to the Anacortes-Guemes ferry route. Almar, with a capacity for nine vehicles, was not a true double-ender; the ferry had to be backed into the Anacortes slip, and large trucks could not be carried.
Hunter Marine was an American boat builder, now known as Marlow-Hunter, LLC, owned by David E. Marlow.The company did produce the Mainship powerboat brand. Marlow also owns and manufactures the Marlow Yachts brand consisting of long range power cruisers in the 37 to 110 foot range.
1839 - An early electric boat was developed by the German inventor Moritz von Jacobi in 1839 in St Petersburg, Russia. It was a 24-foot (7.3 m) boat which carried 14 passengers at 3 miles per hour (4.8 km/h). It was successfully demonstrated to Emperor Nicholas I of Russia on the Neva River.
Bernard Lyman was the co-founder of Lyman Brothers Boat Builders and Lyman Boat Works. Lyman founded the company with his brother, Herman Lyman, in 1875. [1] He designed and built the clinker (boat building) built boat, the Lyman. [2] The Lyman boat has a reputation for, as Tom Koroknay says, "mastering the rugged chop of Lake Erie. [3]
Per Almar Aas (1929–2014), Norwegian politician Almar Orri Atlason (born 2004), Icelandic basketball player Almar Heggen (1933–2014), Norwegian opera singer
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more