Here's a crop from a crappy photo with flare on the lens and washed out...best I could find of my motor mount, gives the idea of size relative to transom cutout etc. at least. From first season I had it, so still has the honkin' big Tohatsu 6hp on it. HTH, John On 10/25/20 10:13 PM, John Schinnerer via montgomery_boats wrote:
Well, my two cents is, this does seem like overkill.
The mount that came with my M17 was dealing with that oversize Tohatsu 6hp SailPro that came with it, at ~63 lbs or so, for the previous owners (and me a couple times) and is not so heavy or beefy as the Garhauer looks.
Mine is fabricated of flat stainless stock, 4-link geometry (2 links each side, like your pic except flat arms not tubular). Stainless bolts with spacers for the pivot rods. Old enough that the motor mount plate is super-thick plywood not plastic. Four positions it can be adjusted to.
Don't have a pic handy unfortunately...
I have had it off the transom a few times. Didn't weigh it but I would estimate it was 8-10 lbs at most.
cheers, John
On 10/25/20 9:30 PM, Henry Rodriguez wrote:
I called Garhauer and ordered the OB-125 mount. Got it yesterday. I can see why it costs so much compared to other brackets from marine suppliers. It is very well made and very nicely finished. Definitely a quality product.
But, man, was I surprised when I took it out of the box. It is so much bigger and heavier than I expected it to be. (I'm not in a marina and don't get to see other boats up close very often.) It weighs 18.5 lb on my bathroom scale! That's 1/3 the weight of any motor I would ever put on that boat. My current 5hp Mariner 2-stroke only weighs 47 lb.
It just seems like way overkill for such a small motor on a small boat. I'm tempted to return it and get a smaller, lighter mount. And yet I understand that this is the same bracket that was shipped on new Sages and Montgomerys. Help me wrap my head around this, please.
Henry Monita
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