Stern Pulpit Outboard Motor Mount!

[Lost Horizons]

Originally Posted by LauraleeG

Hey All!
1) Holy smokes!!! Outboard motor mounts are friggin expensive!! What has anybody done to circumvent that?? Is there something you have made??

2) How safe is it to tow the dinghy with the motor tipped in? ( yes yes only in fair weather).

3) what’s the heaviest weight you’d put on a stern rail motor mount?

Thanks
Laura

Check out Better Bracket from Simple System Marine, particularly if you have 1-1/4” pushpit tubes and your motor is a heavy 2-cylinder model. They have four different configurations, very decent quality, and cheaper than Edson. However, if your motor is a 1-cylinder model, tubing is one inch or less, and there is a T-junction available to clip to, the teak or similar plastic square one from Defender is the best deal. West Marine has or had a similar slightly larger one for about $60.

I have not mounted the Better Bracket yet, need to fabricate a spacer and do some cutting on a pushpit seat, which I am reluctant to do. Here is how it looks:

[mikedefieslife]

I mount my 26kg Yamaha 8hp on a $30 seadog bracket. The bracket is old and bending so I'm looking to replace it, but it did just fine on my Atlantic crossing. Unlike many I don't have a single locker large enough to fit any sized outboard in.

Oddly, I've not seen many/any brackets rated for more than 35kg.

[Lost Horizons]

The one above is rated up to 125 lb/60 kg.

[Gripfast]

Been thinking about replacing mine. I have no vertical bar where the outboard engine needs to go. PO put one on with a short piece of PVC pipe to a tee he split to go over the bottom rail. It looks stupid and is not stable...
I feel silly that I didn't think to just make one out of a board long enough to reach the bottom rail and clamp with ss ubolts.....dah!

Thanks for the info folks!

[EmeraldCoastSailor]

I have happy with my Edson mount but it was expensive, even on sale. If I had thought about it further, I'd likely have tried Tayana42's route as it looks quite similar.

[a64pilot]

Give us a link to this $400 SS one, you have me curious

[Svsumurun]

We've got one like this ( I think it's made by sea dog?) doesn't have the down ward rail to mount to, so it's just bolted on the top . Our 6 hp Johnson rides through anything on it .

https://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-...SABEgISFfD_BwE

[Muaddib1116]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Give us a link to this $400 SS one, you have me curious

They're probably talking about the Edson one, which is about $400.

[LauraleeG]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

Give us a link to this $400 SS one, you have me curious

$582 CAD
https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/inde...e=796744017854

[LauraleeG]

Thanks for the thumbnails of the home made versions! We can do this
So great!!!

[a64pilot]

Originally Posted by LauraleeG

$582 CAD
https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/inde...e=796744017854

That is the Edson I have, I didn’t know I paid that much

[LauraleeG]

Originally Posted by a64pilot

That is the Edson I have, I didn’t know I paid that much

Lol did the Edson Fairies bring it?

[Pegu Club]

We circumvent the weight issue by using a Honda 2.3 hp outboard, 35 ish pounds, our dinghy is a walker bay 8 footer, with the inflatable pontoons, easily light enough to drag onto a rocky beach, or onto the fore deck if needed. It’s the poor mans RIB.

Fair winds,

[Dockhead]

Piece of plastic -- the type they make cutting boards from -- and 3 stainless u bolts. And Bob's your uncle.


As to outboard weight:


I've gone from a 48kg 25hp Mariner to a 27kg 8hp Selva to a 17kg 3.5hp Mercury.



When you balance handling the motor and not breaking your back or falling overboard, against speed and planing ability, handling -- as the years go by -- handling wins more and more and more and to hell with the rest.


Next step will be a Torqueedo, which breaks down into two parts

[hamburking]

Originally Posted by LauraleeG

$582 CAD
https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/inde...e=796744017854

LOL...I bought mine from the same store. It was $40...but that was a decade ago...its gone up a bit: https://www.marineoutfitters.ca/inde...e=725060603267

For pictures of it on my boat, look at my previous post.
It fit right out of the box, installed in like 5 minutes.