Outboard security

[Dave_Knowles]

Hi,

I have now replaced my Seagull Kingfisher with a more powerfull auxilary outboard (it's been a long saga) but now have the problem that the engine is a little heavy to keep putting on and taking off.

I would be interested in any ideas as to the best way to keep it reasonably secure if left on all the time as so many of the things on the market seem to look easy to remove.

I know that the chain saw gang etc. will remove anything but I hope that if I make it reasoinbly secure the fact that it is not too atractive will put them off it is difficiult to remove.

<hr width=100% size=1>Dave
Southampton - uk

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.MyCleopatra.co.uk>The site for cleopatra boat owners</A>

 

[the_wanderer]

Hi!
I use a standard O/B tube and lock over my locking screws that have saved my O/B on a couple of occasions. A safer bet is a good bit of security chain around the O/B and around something solid. Another bet is to remove the engine cover and take it home in addition to the afforsaid and cover with tarp. thus making the engine not worth pinching.
Regards.
Alan.

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[supermalc]

An outboard tube (something like the tube on a push bike D lock) as mentioned. If the engine mounting bracket has bolts throught the transom, locking bolts as well. I also put a heavy chain around the mounting bracket and through the front of the transom well, as I have not bolted the engine to the transom.

I have a 9.9 Mariner on an 18 Norman (which I'm selling, as I now have a 20ft Mahogany clinker fishing boat)

See pictures on website.

<hr width=100% size=1>Malcolm.
<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/malcsworld/>http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/malcsworld/</A>
Take a look at my boating pages.

 

[VicS]

I also use a tube type device over the tops of the clamps, also a length of hardended chain threaded between the drive shaft and the exhaust part of the leg and padlocked around on of the pushpit uprights and another through the clamping bracket and padlocked round the pushpit. The lattermost also prevents the engine being lowered.

Be sure to get good recognised brand padlocks as I found I could cut through one, made in China, with a hacksaw blade held in my hand, despite it being marked hardened. You cannot make an outboard totally secure as a big enough pair of bolt cutters will always cut through the chains or padlocks. The only engine I've lost though was locked in the cabin.

Regarding the weight you will find it'll get a little heavier year by year in just the same way as print gets more and more difficult to read, lawns get bigger and several other natural phenomena.

<hr width=100% size=1><font color=purple>Ne te confundant illegitimi.</font color=purple>

 

[ccscott49]

One of the easiest ways, is to bolt it too the transom, make the nuts difficult to get at without a socket and use something like whitworth nuts and bolts, who has whitworth sockets?? Also one of those tube things over the clamps will do, I would think.

<hr width=100% size=1>

 

[Trevor_swfyc]

If the boat is stored ashore for the winter then remove it for storage whatever you do to secure it will only result in more damage to the boat when some B....... removes it with whatever it takes.
On a mooring if it is going to take more than an hour to remove then you have probably cracked it, providing the next boat up is less secure.
Most of the tube locks can be removed in 5 minutes try it.
How about using four car wheel locks, remove the plastic levers on the top bolts with a drill or bang out the pins. Now find a socket that allows the car wheel lock spanner to turn within it, assemble with socket stopping a wrench from being attached to the car lock. Repeat the same on all four bolts. Remember most locks purchased are known to the engine thief, if yours is new to him he may not bother if it looks difficult. Even grease spread all over the floor under the lower bolt area would be a big turn off.

Remember just in case all this fails make sure you have all the details of the engine, hide your post code on it somewhere, as they usually end up at some jumble in the end. I have observed the police checking engines from a list, a big list.

All the best
Trevor




<hr width=100% size=1>