"Charlie Brown" wrote in message
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This may be a dumb question, but when I buy my boat, I'm planning on
storing in an open lot. Obviously, I'm concerned about theft. It
would seem to me that removing an outboard motor is probably not too
hard to do. Is there some kind of locking mechanism that helps
prevent theft?

I'm using one of these
http://www.mcgard.com/marine/outboard.asp

and one of these while parked on the trailer
http://www.lockitt.com/cobralin.htm

A padlock is easily cut as I found out the hard way.

If you use a kicker bracket take a good look at its assembly. Some are very easy
to take apart.

-rick-