Topic: Puzzle #1760 - P.C. Vincent on a prototype Amanda Water Scooter

[Otto Puzzell]

Please, respond below and share your knowledge of who that gentleman is, and the vehicle he is enjoying.

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[Otto Puzzell]

Experts?

[Oswald]

Bond?

[Otto Puzzell]

Not 007

[Amsterdam]

It is P.C. Vincent of Vincent Motorbikes on a prototype Amanda waterscooter

[Otto Puzzell]

But of course!

It is far from certain just when the first personal watercraft (PWC) appeared. For one thing, the concept is much older than its official definition, which the US Coast Guard finally formalized as a Class A (16 feet long and under) inboard boat operated by a person astride rather than inside the craft. This description did not exist when the Vincent Motorcycle Company, in 1955 marketed the propellor-driven 200cc Amanda Water Scooter.

California inventor Clayton Jacobson II built the first known standup ten years later, which eventually became the Kawasaki Jet Ski

[Carnut]

And he's wearing the ideal attire for jet-skiing: grey flannel suit and tie!