Jetboard

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Jetboard on display at the California Surf Museum
Jetboard on display at the California Surf Museum

The Jetboard was an early powered longboard surfboard. It is one of the earliest, if not the earliest motorized sufboard, produced in 1968 or earlier. It was 11 feet long, weighed 85 pounds, had an aluminum hull and a 6.25 horsepower, single cylinder chain saw engine. [1]

The early hulls were made of wood, but later hulls were made by the aeronautical company Sargent Fletcher in El Monte, California. Their initial development and production was funded by Alfred S. Bloomingdale (heir to the Bloomingdale's Department store fortune).[2]

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  1. ^ Fueling the Powered Board Revolution. Retrieved on July 19, 2006.
  2. ^ Jet Board History. Retrieved on July 19, 2006.

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