Quote Originally Posted by Powerabout View Post
Thanks guys, I think you got it.

Lars
I agree, I always asked why they didnt make Jet ski's as they will be big soon after seeing Kawasaki 440's start to turned up to our marina in Oz in the late 70's.
Both Merc and OMC said there was no market and they will be banned soon?
I think OMC felt the jet ski market world go the same way as the S/N market. They had already lost a ton of money in S/N and didn't want to repeat that. Remember in 1969 there were 113 manufacures of S/N's. By 1975 there was 3.