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Speed Queen Boats were manufactured from 1953 to 1962. The first model was designed by company founder William J. Horvath. Fourteen feet in length, the first model was a centerdeck-style, all fiberglass runabout that could accept outboard motors up to 50 hp (37 kW). Additional sixteen and eighteen-foot models were added in 1958 and 1959.
The Star is a 6.9 metres (23 ft) one-design racing keelboat for two people designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1910. The Star was an Olympic keelboat class from 1932 through to 2012, the last year keelboats appeared at the Summer Olympics.
In 1971, an explosion destroyed the Sicamous Marina, an adjacent home, boats, motors, snowmobiles, and other sporting goods. [208] In 1972, about 25 families fled to higher ground when up to 1 metre (3 ft) of water surged through the downtown area from the rain-swollen Shuswap and Mara lakes. [209] In 1974, the first bowling alley opened. [194]
The Wellcraft Scarab 38 KVs were a 28-hued, twin 440-hp boat that sold for $130,000 in 1986. [4] As a result of the publicity the show gave Wellcraft, the company received "an onslaught of orders", increasing sales by 21 percent in one year. [4] In appreciation, Wellcraft gave Don Johnson an exact duplicate of the boat featured on the show. [4]
The A-40 is a jet-engined flying boat patrol bomber of all-metal construction with the engines located above the wing roots, atop each of the main landing gear nacelles at the rear of each wing root. The swept wings , set high on the fuselage , have a marked anhedral angle, with balance floats attached by short pylons directly under each wingtip.
Sikorsky S-42, aircraft registration NC-822M, "Brazilian Clipper", Pan American Airways, 1934. During the inaugural flight of Sikorsky's previous flying boat, the S-40, on November 19, 1931, the pilot and Pan American Airways consultant, Charles Lindbergh, who considered the S-40 a monstrosity, engaged designer Igor Sikorsky in a conversation about what he thought the next airplane should look ...
Steamboats Sicamous, Kaleden, York, and Aberdeen at Okanagan Landing, British Columbia, 1916. The Canadian Pacific River Lake and River Service, also known as the British Columbia Lake and River Service, was a division of Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) which began operating passenger and cargo shipping routes along British Columbia's inland waters during the late 19th century.
Additionally, Model A engine aficionado and engineer Terry Burtz, of Campbell, California, after a prolonged research and development program, [100] [101] [102] has begun the manufacturing and sale of new Model A engine blocks, and kits for constructing an entire Model A engine, tweaked with various refinements typical of modern engines.