Storing ourboards at home

[Moonshiners]

Just interested - how do most people store their (tender) outboards at home?

Do you have a boat style bracket to hang them from or a home made version... or it is juct chucked in the shed on top of the lawn mower.

trying to get organised and looking for innovitive ideas without copping out £80 just to hang 2 small (2.5hp) engines off the wall on (our soon to be built) new garage.

 

[pyrojames]

Used to have a rack of 2x3 timber to sit outboards on, and a 20 gal drum of water at one end for rinsing. 80 quid for a off the shelf jobby? You got to be kidding.

 

[MoodySabre]

My Johnson has a small skeg to stand it on. An old golf trolley is a good thing to fix it to and move around.

 

[Moonshiners]

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Used to have a rack of 2x3 timber to sit outboards on, and a 20 gal drum of water at one end for rinsing. 80 quid for a off the shelf jobby? You got to be kidding.

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£40ea x 2 (two outboards)

 

[morgandlm]

Mine is run in fresh water, drained, given a quick spray of WD40 under the cowling and then stands on its skeg in a corner of the garage where it provides a good aiming point when I reverse the car into the garage.
Morgan

 

[maxi77]

I have a stand made from 4X2 CLS timber from B&Q which cost me less than £5 to make which does fine for a tender sized engine. When I had a larger engine for propulsion on the boat I had a modified sack trolleywhich made it easy to move around. A cheap plastic tub did for washing through the cooling system or other engine running maitenance.

 

[Evadne]

Another advantage of the electric outboard, I fold it up and shove it in the spare room.

 

[tillergirl]

Sits on a home made bracket on the garage wall having been winterised

 

[Pasarell]

I have a kitchen swing bin to run the outboard in freshwater then a piece of 2x1 across two of the shed upright braces to hang it from while at home.
Total cost about £5

 

[cliffordpope]

Old wooden drawer about 2' square, with two wooden uprights and a board across. The motor hangs over the drawer base, and bits of equipment, petrol can, etc live in the base.

 

[Ruffles]

I you have a free corner at the back of your garage, screw a 2' length of ply at 45 degrees across the corner. It's an easy way to make a bracket.

 

[lydiamight]

Give the outboard a fresh water flush by filling your "wheelie bin" with water and then clamping the outboard to the front edge (opposite the hinge) Do not overfill as when you engage gear you will eject a fair portion of the contents. Great thing about this is you can explain to SWMBO that you are actually cleaning the bin for her and the activity is not boat related in any sense

 

[ValleyForge]

Both my seagulls enjoy pride of place leaning against the end of a bench, & covered with a bit of old rag. Been like that for over 30 years although they do get a run out quite regularly. Each starts on the third pull every time so it must be ok. If needs be they get a run in a bucket whilst strapped to the garden gate. Being seagulls at low revs the turbulence is about the same as an old bendix washing machine. Barely much more at full chat though I have to say. One day I promise to put them both on the zodiac & try & make it plane. Doubt it will work though.
Left a 4hp Yamaha out in the garden for a few months once - on trying to start it the crank sheared, with the mageto flywheel coming off. Tip - never leave an outboard out in the nettles in the garden .....

 

[VicS]

These two live on a stand which can straddle a tank of water for flushing out etc

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The two 'gulls just rest against the wall beside them although the little one goes on the stand when the 'rude is on the boat

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All in the corner of the garage.

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BTW to get photobucket pics to display in a blank window, like they used to, instead of a p'bucket window delete ?action=view&current= from the mark up.

 

[Haven't-a-Clue]

Bought an ex-display sack trolley from Homebase and spent an hour or so with some off-cuts and bits of tube modifying it. Honda BF8 sits nice and secure upright and when I find a deep enough bucket, I'll give it a more thorough flush!

 

[Csail]

I just knocked up a big stand out of roof batton and bits of ply. (15 min job) Make sure the height is perfect to fit the leg in a drum of water for engine runs.

 

[jenku]

I'm a bit disappointed nobody admits keeping it on display it in the living-room admiring it every day!! No mine isn't either it's on its side (the right one being 4-stroke) up the attic...

 

[Billjratt]

I just mount it on a offcut of old worktop and lean it against the wall. It gets it up out of the way so I can pile other bits underneath, and takes the weight off the skeg.

 

[Evadne]

Well, I once kept a seagull 102 in the bedroom, next to the spare motorbike engine. Redecorating the flat and moving them to the shed was one of SWMBO's first suggestions when she moved in. I must admit it did improve the ambiance, even though I missed the evocative smell of 2-stroke at first.

 

[Severnman]

I use an old adapted zimmer frame - bit of 4 x 1 all that was required!