Honda BF10 Outboard

[Fire99]

For a change, this isn't a cry for help, rather than an observation.

I pulled my '07 BF10 out of the Well on my boat today to give it some TLC and general service.

It's a great engine in many ways. It sips fuel, Starts well.. (Sometimes even with the Electric) and isn't desparately noisy. It also looks quite nice in a silvery grey kinda way.

However, It is between 42 and 52kg!!! And Honda have managed to make the cowling firstly out of flexy plastic and secondly so smooth with no jutty out bits that there is nothing to grab hold of to lug the damn thing around.

Yes you could leave it in the water for a whole year but once I pulled it out of the water it showed why that was a good idea. One of the Anodes was well over 50% dead in about 6 months and the water inlets were full of mud and slime.

So one very efficient, bleedin annoying great slab of a motor all because the EU thinks I might make a smell. Don't you love progress!!

 

[Fire99]

Actually I do have one question.

Is there some way I can use the boom to help winch-lift the Outboard up?
I've a bit of a sprorts injury and doing it all by hand is not helping one bit.

 

[Tommyrot]

I did help do exactly that with the same engine on a Hurley 22, lifting it onto the boat, getting the thing in and out of the well is a bigger problem there though!

 

[Fire99]

I managed to get mine out of the Well and into the cabin for a bit of TLC but to be honest, having a bit of an injury i'm not looking forward to getting the thing back in the cockpit and in the Well again.

What kind of vertical loads can the end of your boom take on a 23 ft boat? The motor seems bleedin heavy to be supporting it with the boom.

 

[djeeke]

What kind of vertical loads can the end of your boom take on a 23 ft boat?

I guess that's the work of the topping lift line, if in doubt I would double this with a halyard (if possible)...

 

[Fire99]

I guess that's the work of the topping lift line, if in doubt I would double this with a halyard (if possible)...

Yep that sounds a fair idea. My Topping Lift is quite small diameter (since it normally only needs to hold the boom up, so I wouldn't want to risk 50 or so Kg added to the load.