What are you guys using for locking small outboards to the boat?
Mar 14, 2021 17:44:33 #
FS Digest wrote:
Just got a new 20hp and I sure would like to keep it. Thanks
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Reminds me about 1970 or so a friend and I went fishing to a lake called if I remember right Bay Lake. It was a very popular lake so we went very early maybe 1am, but when we got there, all the parking along the road had been taken so we had to launch our row boat then drive quite a distance to park our pickup. I remember everybody sitting out there in a very dense cluster of fisherman with hardly any space between boats. I remember just as it got light and the season was just open and individual shouted out, "I got the first fish on Bay lake" and then someone else hollered "I got the second fish" and so on. There were a few boats that were slowly trolling in amongst all the boats. Any way a while later a feller decided he wanted to move to a different spot and went about starting his small outboard. Well just when it started, it came unclamped and here was this guy frantically hanging onto his outboard that was knifing back and forth behind the boat with the guying trying to hang on and not fall over the stern into the lake.
Mar 14, 2021 18:07:06 #
Mar 14, 2021 22:20:29 #
Martin in Maine
Loc: Freeport Maine
Hey Smitty,
Let’s keep Maine a secret.
It is the way life is supposed to be.
And the fishin’ is good too.
Martin in Maine
Let’s keep Maine a secret.
It is the way life is supposed to be.
And the fishin’ is good too.
Martin in Maine
Mar 14, 2021 22:23:00 #
Mar 15, 2021 07:44:40 #
bobber22
Loc: Ocala, Florida
I put a padlock between the eyes of the transom securing screws of the motor. Not sure if the distance between your screw eyes would receive a padlock--even if it was of the type with the longer shank.
Mar 15, 2021 07:47:47 #
bobber22
Loc: Ocala, Florida
Msrtin in Maine wrote:
Hey Smitty,
Let’s keep Maine a secret.
It is the way life is supposed to be.
And the fishin’ is good too.
Martin in Maine
Let’s keep Maine a secret.
It is the way life is supposed to be.
And the fishin’ is good too.
Martin in Maine
I always went up to Ariscohos lake by the New Hampshire/Canada border. Late September was fly only, had some great times there at a little fish camp inside the Brown company timber property
Mar 15, 2021 08:16:25 #
Stan1295
Loc: Southeastern CT
I have a 9.9 merc on my boat which is thru-bolted to the transom. I tried two different outboard motor locks (the type that slide over the screw handles and have a padlock that drops through the bars of the lock). The first one didn’t fit and the second one barely fit but I still wasn’t satisfied. I replaced the whole thing with a large heavy Masterlock padlock with a hardened boron (I thiink) shank that is about 5/16” thick which I put through the handles of the turn screws. They cannot loosen with the padlock in place. An enterprising thief may be able to free the motor eventually. Hopefully in the meantime he is caught or scared away. That’s probably the best you can hope for.
Mar 15, 2021 10:00:54 #
Locally, I do not lock either the boat trailer or the the hitch. Always take the trolling motor off and store inside locked pickup bed - why advertise?
When I go out of town and over the weekend I lock the trailer hitch and the receiver hitch. Defeats only the "opportunist" granted but its one less easy score for someone. I always try to back down the bank or against the curb/tree to make it less easy/attractive to steal
When I go out of town and over the weekend I lock the trailer hitch and the receiver hitch. Defeats only the "opportunist" granted but its one less easy score for someone. I always try to back down the bank or against the curb/tree to make it less easy/attractive to steal
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Jan 17, 2023 11:41:56 #
smitty
Loc: maine
lipsticker wrote:
Smith & Wesson.....
dont even have to lock the doors here. see cars at the store w keys in ig. doubt it will stay like this; 'new' people are movin up this way. boat stores have stuff outside with whole engines. when i lived in fla they left the lower units off new boats because of theft
Jan 17, 2023 11:42:31 #
smitty
Loc: maine
Martin in Maine wrote:
Hey Smitty,
Let’s keep Maine a secret.
It is the way life is supposed to be.
And the fishin’ is good too.
Martin in Maine
Let’s keep Maine a secret.
It is the way life is supposed to be.
And the fishin’ is good too.
Martin in Maine
amen MnM
Jan 17, 2023 11:45:16 #
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