Reply To: What was your first outboard?

[LLOYD LAUTNER]

Johnson TD20. My mother bought it new for my Dad after he returned from Okinawa in WWII. We fished with that motor all over the US as we moved around. I built a Thriftway II boat from plans in Popular Mechanics while I was in High School and ran that TD 20 on it until I upgraded to a used Evinrude 18. That’s when I first learned how to make and replace the Primer seals that were NLA from dealers. I continued to use the TD 20 for fishing all the way through Medical School until it disappeared in a yard sale some time in the 1980’s.