OUR STORY
ENGINEERING HERITAGE
Salmon Marine was founded in 1987 by Steve Salmon in his garage workshop in Poole, providing bespoke engineering and fabrication services. A reputation for quality soon followed, leading to Steve being a "go-to" supplier for the local offshore powerboat racing community. Steve was once passenger in a powerboat during a high-speed crash, leaving him with a concussion and a fractured collarbone. Resolving to prevent the issue from happening again, Steve invented a means by which to control the trim of the boat without generating drag, even at high speeds - our first Waterscoop.
The system proved so effective that it was quickly adopted across the powerboat racing community, including by world champions and legends such as Adam Younger and Steve Curtis. This brought it to the attention of leading Search and Rescue organisations, who recognised it's potential for protecting their crews during rescue operations. The next generation of Waterscoop evolved to meet the requirements of rescue teams, and remains at the core of our Wavebreaker system today.
RUGGED DESIGN
“Inside the box thinking” was how Steve described his approach to problem-solving. Steve was an old-school engineer, and whilst everyone else was busy looking for ideas “outside of the box”, he proposed that there was little benefit in solving one problem only to create three more.
Instead, he found the sweet spot between conventional wisdom and creative solutions. The result is a design philosophy that remains the core of our approach today; take a simple idea, and engineer the s*** out of it.
BUILT ON
TRADITION
Steve continued to machine all of our components himself until his passing in 2014, and the torch was passed to his son Joe Salmon. This personal heritage continues to drive our passion for what we do. We take great pride not just in the quality of our work, but also the the depth of the long-term relationships that we form with our customers.
Every system that we make has the Salmon family name on it, which is why every component has to be made to a quality that Steve himself would be proud of.