BOATING -- The boating industry this week is celebrating the contribution of Richard "Dick" Stallman, who was 34 in 1962 when he tested his invention -- the jet outboard -- by running a sled upstream through the rapids of Oregon's Rogue River.

Stallman died last week. 

“His invention was a major contribution to shallow-water boating world-wide and it greatly enhanced access to premium waters and hunter and angler success,” noted Glen Wooldridge of Wooldridge Boats of Seattle in a Facebook post announcing the death.

Andy Walgamott of Northwest Sportsman has assembled this story, a nice look back at Stallman's revolutionary invention, which put sportsmen in the driver's seat for thin waters and fishing and hunting hot spots previously off-limits to motorized travel.