"I was driving back from the coast Wednesday with my wife, had had a really good day including getting my first haircut and dining out for the first time in months, when I got this phone call," Martin said via his YouTube channel. The announcement came as a surprise to Evinrude's now jobless global workforce of 650, mostly located at its factory in Sturtevant, Wisc. Many of the employees were already on furlough and were told their positions were eliminated by recorded phone message, according to Scott Martin of Clewiston, a professional bass angler and 20-year Evinrude pro team angler. The Evinrude name stepping out of the outboard business would be akin to Ford announcing it would no longer build automobiles. How big was this announcement? Consider that Ole Evinrude invented the first commercially viable outboard engine in 1907. One of the world's leaders in outboard motor manufacturing will no longer exist.Įvinrude motors parent company, Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP), announced last week that it would discontinue manufacturing of its Evinrude E-TEC and E-TEC G2 outboard engines. Instead, the company will focus on growing its boat brands and developing technology and innovation of other marine products. The boating world received shocking and surprising news.
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