Motor safety chains.

[Steve A W]

Do you put a safety chain on your motors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS3ALOmIXSg&t=159 😳

Member of the MOB chapter.
I live in Northwest Indiana

[RICHARD A. WHITE]

After being there when club member Greg Gardner lost his Super 12 Wizard overboard in Ohio, I will from now on…

http://www.richardsoutboardtools.com
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[outbdnut2]

I use safety chains on motors that don’t already have steering and remote cables hooked up. Interesting thing is – try to buy a safety chain today! When you run searches at boat supply websites, all that comes up are safety chains for your trailer hitch. Fortunately, I have three chains here. I guess you have to make them yourself these days if you don’t have any. Hey – I just had a thought and ran a search at iboats.com on "safety cables" and one for a motor came up – I guess that’s what’s being sold today!
Dave

[captchuck]

Can honestly say I have never used a chain but have always used some sort of line. Dad taught me over 50 years ago that a piece of line between the boat and the engine is cheap and easy insurance. I’ve never had an engine jump off the transom but I still tie the line, usually before I even put the engine on the transom. Especially when I am putting the engine on while the boat is floating.

[jw-in-dixie]

Safety rope/chain? You betcha, never leave the dock without one. My boat is suspended in a remote boathouse, so there is a lock on the chain. Boat is also chained and locked to the deck. Make ’em work for it. 👿

[fisherman6]

I use one all the time. So far so good with not having one go for a swim, but I’d like to be able to get it back if one ever does. It is visible in this picture of my latest 1954 Super Fastwin on my FD Alumacraft.
-Ben

OldJohnnyRude on YouTube

[dave-bernard]

I have not need a chain on mine I bolt them on.

[fisherman6]

I bolt them on if I have a dedicated motor on a boat. My pontoon has the motor bolted on. My other boats get the motors swapped out all the time, so bolting those on doesn’t make sense. Bolting the motor to the transom is certainly the most secure method. Most of.mine use the clamp screws only, so on those I use a safety chain.
-Ben

OldJohnnyRude on YouTube

[garry-in-michigan]

I always relied on the steering cables and transom protector that had sockets for the clamp screw buttons. Since the antique Evinrudes I ran had a slot in the transom bracket, there was a lag screw in the back of the transom to center the motor. Never the less I make it a practice to always check the clamp screws before opening the gas line and air vent to start the motor. I only had one accident. A transome bracket cracked from being too tight . . . 😆

[outbdnut2]

Yes – transom brackets do break! On my son’s Minimost Hydroplane, when running a stock KE7 Mercury, I had my ski boat on half plane to make a big wake for him to jump. He would come up behind the boat and jump the wake about 10 feet from the boat, getting the hydro and sometimes the prop airborne. The motor would sometimes tilt up a bit and slam back down when the prop hit the water – that was fun until the transom clamps cracked off – but the steering cables held onto the motor with the powerhead just above water. Got the clamps heliarc welded and then added a bungie cord just above the cavitation plate to hold the motor down.
Dave

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