storing outboard on stern rail

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whats the consensus about storing a small Honda outboard on a stern rail. I normal store it in a locker on board... However holiday time other junk seems to clutter the locker ie... mountain bikes and dinghy and the outboard is at the bottom of the locker when i require it....

i was thinking of one of these plastic / wood outboard brackets to put on the stern rail. are they any good ???? or should i make me own or not bother at all and put up with moving junk in and out the locker.
 
We keep our little yammy 2b on the stern rail on a home built mount. Mine was made with a couple of sheets of marine ply epoxied together for strength, the length of the o/b leg so as to protect the boat and mounted it onto the uprights with some large U bolts. The bottom is supported by having it resting on the "taff rail".

Never had a problem with the engine being lifted but if you want my engine, you have problems! The only downside is that it gives the "shy talks" one more place to stand and shyte from!
 
Being a four stroke it is important that the outboard should be stored correctly and not just thrown in a locker with all the other junk.

Vertical is the ideal orientation for a four stroke engine. It makes sense to either fit a mounting bracket in the locker for it or to store it padlocked to a pad on the rail, unsightly though that may be.

Easy enough to make a pad with a bit of suitable hardwood and some suitable mountings but at £20 the plastic pad available from chandlers is peanuts. The wooden ones cost a little more.

http://www.seamarknunn.com/acatalog/OutboardStowageBrackets.html

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the honda has always been fine laying on it's side.... it has moulded pads in the casing and the instruction manual states it should be only layed down a certain way on these pads. I've made a solid fixing location for it in the locker and always drain the fuel when not in use.

thanks for the link vic
 
I do recommend the white plastic pad. Trivial to fit and doesn't look as unsightly as the wooden ones when they're a couple of years old and have been scratched and dented by the outboard's clamps.

Ours lives on the pushpit during the summer before returning to the garage in the winter. Some people put canvas covers on the outboards to stop the UV from dulling the casing.
 
Mine are stored upright in a locker when I'm not sailing & the one in use goes on the pushpit when I am. I made a cover for one from a bit of spare waterproof fabric that makes it less of an eysore. The spare outboard remanis below. There is a slight risk that the Mizzen sheet can catch on it when I jibe, but it only requires me to take up a bit of the slack to prevent it.

But I seldom use outboards on the dink anyway, I prefer to row (or even paddle if the dink is full). I must be a couple of years since I last started an O/b.
 
Got both my Honda 2.3 and a Seagull on the stern rail.
Honda stays there year in year out, just pull it over if it hasnt been used for a month. Keep it oiled and greased though.
Seagull is only visiting until I put it back in the shed.
 
and a Seagull on the stern rail.
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Bluddy turnstones that sit on the rails down our way ... and every where else on the boat. Sh ite and muddy footprints all over! Dozens of them
 
CAREFUL

I dont know where you moor your boat but a chain and lock on the outboard would be advisable as these are very often the prey of opportunist thiefs as i found out the hard way. A lock is normally enough deterant.
 
I don't prefer to row.

Searush said:
Mine are stored upright in a locker when I'm not sailing & the one in use goes on the pushpit when I am. I made a cover for one from a bit of spare waterproof fabric that makes it less of an eysore. The spare outboard remanis below. There is a slight risk that the Mizzen sheet can catch on it when I jibe, but it only requires me to take up a bit of the slack to prevent it.

But I seldom use outboards on the dink anyway, I prefer to row (or even paddle if the dink is full). I must be a couple of years since I last started an O/b.
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I don’t prefer to row as it’s usually me doing the rowing. Plus after a good meal followed by a few hours of liquid refreshment I once had to row back with crew against the tide and vowed “never again”.
Also I was recently asked to crew for a club member who forgot to use an anchor light. So when returning to the boat in the pitch dark, in a crowded bay, with the two others adamant that every dark grey-black shape was our boat, we must of visited at least half the fleet. It wasn’t too bad as I have a good sense of humour, time was not an issue and we had plenty of fuel for the outboard. :)
 
FullCircle said:
Got both my Honda 2.3 and a Seagull on the stern rail.
Honda stays there year in year out, just pull it over if it hasnt been used for a month. Keep it oiled and greased though.
Seagull is only visiting until I put it back in the shed.
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I also store my honda and seagull on the stern rail outboard pad, although the seagull had other ideas. ?


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I would make a outboard pad out of wood, something to varnish during the winter..
here is a pic of the outboard pad.

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'Your using the South passage, ever tried it "the other way" if you see what I mean.'


No, not had the b%$ls to do it, but i hear that you have 'just for the fun of it'.

i wouldn't mind knowing the way through !!!!
 
If you get the old "Glazebrook" pilot there is a chartlet of the several different passages. I'll see if I can scan it for you.

It also helps if you have plotter on as well! And I wouldn't try it other than at HW slack.
 
Glazebrook pilot.

Searush said:
If you get the old "Glazebrook" pilot there is a chartlet of the several different passages. I'll see if I can scan it for you.

It also helps if you have plotter on as well! And I wouldn't try it other than at HW slack.
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Latest news on Glazebrook! NWVYC will be publishing a revised version of the Glazebrook within the next few months. All text unchanged except where new developments have occurred. Charts as previous but some colour added. Anyone seeing this pilot will marvel at the expertise and patience of a man doing this survey work unaided from a 14 ft sailing dinghy, without the benefit of any modern navigation aids.

Sorry for the thread drift but could not avoid this opportunity.
 
I've got a Honda 2hp. All I use to put it on the pushpit (standard 25mm ss tubing) is a 6" length of plastic piping slit down its length and cable tied on. The clamps then tighten onto this perfectly. The bottom of the ob leg is then tied on to the lower rail (padded with grey pipe insulation). No need for any wooden brackets and fancy fixings. Total somplicity and secure.
 
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A mount on the rail is fine. Suggest that you make it from hardwood, put a decent lock on the clamp handles and, to prevent the light-fingered from wiggling the motor off the mounting pad, carve out a circular recess for each clamp pad to sit in. The b****rs will have to saw out chunks of your pushpit, which is not impossible but likely to make them look for something easier
 
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