Gheen Manufacturing Co

I always loved to go fishing, especially in small rivers and shallow hard-to-get places.  Most of the time, that meant going out in a canoe, which as we all know, can be very tricky and at times... very wet!  Being a Tennessee man, I can tell ya the water can be pretty cold!  It only took one flip, in Beaver Creek, on a cold winter day, to realize there had to be a better way.  How could a fisherman get the remote access that a canoe provided and still get superior stability? 


 


In the mid 1960's, I was working as senior designer at the Kennedy Space Center.  One day I came across the drawings of a boat I had sketched, many years before, when I worked as a draftsman, at Dempster Brothers, in Knoxville, Tennessee. With a few more years of design work behind me, I drew up a design that would not only be extremely stable but would allow the option of an outboard motor!  I figured this would save my paddling arm for more fishing!  The d... [Details]