Seadoos, otherwise known as personal watercrafts, resemble snowmobiles for the water. This resemblance is not at all coincidental. The company responsible for introducing the Seadoo on to the market had dozens of years experience in manufacturing snowmobiles. In fact, the first Seadoos were painted the same colour and had the same handle bars as a common type of snowmobile.

The Bombardier family name may be more commonly associated with the aeronautical industry now, but they got their start in snowmobiles. Their claim to fame was the introduction of the Ski-Doo brand of snowmobile, with the trademark black and yellow paint scheme. Having perfected a winter recreational vehicle for snow, it was only natural that this Canadian manufacturer make an attempt at creating a summer vehicle for water.

It was in the early 1960s that we first saw a Sea-Doo come to life. This was a huge step for the recreational vehicle market, and there was obviously a lot of interest from snowmobilers and non-snowmobilers alike looking for a different type of recreational sport. The early models didn’t take off right away due to technical difficulties with respect to engine cooling and corrosion of the metals used in the early models.

The Bombardier company made some design changes and one year later brought a second Seadoo prototype to the market place. The second design version fixed some of the design flaws from the first version but the machine still had problems. Bombardier pulled the product from the market and put the entire concept on hold for twenty years. It was not until the mid-1980s, that Seadoos were re-launched. Since there re-emergence in the 1980s, new versions of Seadoos have been released every year.

Sea-Doo is actually the brand name of the Bombardier line of personal watercraft vehicles. The term Sea-Doo is also used as a genericized trademark for any type of sit-down PWC – meaning that the general population refers to the pwcs of other brands such as Yamaha and Kawasaki, as Seadoos as well. This is similar to what happened to the Ski-Doo brand name also by Bombardier. Bombardier have also expanded their Sea-Doo watercraft line to include boats along with the original pwc model.

It is interesting to know the history of the Sea-Doo. The SeaDoo pwc is so popular now, the evolution of them is something that I take for granted. It is sometimes a bit weird to think that they didn’t even exist when I was a kid. Even though they had a bit of a stumble and break in production from their first concept to the Sea-Doo pwc that we know now, in the end they came back with a winner. From their single and multi-person pwcs, to their line of boats, to boat trailers and seadoo covers … I think that Sea-Doo is definitely here to stay.

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