"richard" wrote in message
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My wife and I will be traveling to various harbors in Maine by car
this weekend with our inflatable dingy (deflated) and an old 2-horse
power outboard engine. We will arrive somewhere, inflate the boat and
spend a few hours cruising. It is a great way for us to see some
beautiful places in a very short amount of time. The outboard is so
old that it must be kept straight up or it tends to leak. My question
is: any ideas on how to travel by car with an old outboard engine? In
the past the car has smelled of gas.

If you had a receiver type trailer hitch, you could have a bracket made to
come
up at right angle, similar to the kind of attachment made for transporting
motorized wheel chairs, and then have a pad for attaching the motor. No
fumes
as it is riding straight up and outside of the car. If anyone looks like
they have
a question, you can always say that is the get home engine when the car runs
out of gas.

Leanne

s/v Fundy