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Boat Newbie - How to secure outboard motor while trailering
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Boat Newbie - How to secure outboard motor while trailering
basskisser wrote:
wrote: Thanks for all the help. I posed the question because I have never seen any of the watermen around Gloucester, Va use a transom saver with a skiff and outboard of this size. Plus this is my first boat so I am super eager to learn :-) Why NOT use a transom saver? They're only about $25, take about 30 seconds to take off and put on. I use mine all the time. The first time you go down a rough road, you'll wish you had that added security. Seems like the transom would be placed under a LOT more load in use in the water than it possibly could being towed. Think of how much force a 100+ horsepower motor will place on the transom at WOT, and add to that the violent jarring over waves, wouldn't surprise me if the forces are many times the peak you'd see on a trailer over a bumpy road. |
Boat Newbie - How to secure outboard motor while trailering
James Sweet wrote: basskisser wrote: wrote: Thanks for all the help. I posed the question because I have never seen any of the watermen around Gloucester, Va use a transom saver with a skiff and outboard of this size. Plus this is my first boat so I am super eager to learn :-) Why NOT use a transom saver? They're only about $25, take about 30 seconds to take off and put on. I use mine all the time. The first time you go down a rough road, you'll wish you had that added security. Seems like the transom would be placed under a LOT more load in use in the water than it possibly could being towed. Think of how much force a 100+ horsepower motor will place on the transom at WOT, and add to that the violent jarring over waves, wouldn't surprise me if the forces are many times the peak you'd see on a trailer over a bumpy road. The back end of the boat doesn't bounce around (up and down) like it does on the road. The load imposed by the outboard running wide open is nothing like that. Under power in the water, the force vector is in the same direction as the bottom of the boat, so the transom is well braced by the whole bottom of the boat. However, when bumping along the road, with the engine up, the load is transferred to the transom in a torque, creating a moment in the transom with the motor being the moment lever. Add to this that when underway, the load is more or less constant, while being towed is dynamic. Long story short, don't use the transom saver if you don't want to. For less than $30, and a few seconds of time, I WILL. |
Boat Newbie - How to secure outboard motor while trailering
"James Sweet" wrote in message news:I1N2h.53$Ue.52@trndny03... basskisser wrote: wrote: Thanks for all the help. I posed the question because I have never seen any of the watermen around Gloucester, Va use a transom saver with a skiff and outboard of this size. Plus this is my first boat so I am super eager to learn :-) Why NOT use a transom saver? They're only about $25, take about 30 seconds to take off and put on. I use mine all the time. The first time you go down a rough road, you'll wish you had that added security. Seems like the transom would be placed under a LOT more load in use in the water than it possibly could being towed. Think of how much force a 100+ horsepower motor will place on the transom at WOT, and add to that the violent jarring over waves, wouldn't surprise me if the forces are many times the peak you'd see on a trailer over a bumpy road. I broke an outboard bracket trailering, not boating. Lots more bouncing on the road than on the water. |
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