Thread: Kayak.

I knocked up a simple mount after work this evening to drop a small outboard off the side of my kayak. I have picked up one of the cheap Chinese 2 stroke outboards that Gimp mentioned in another thread to try out (Cheers for the info). The mount drops into the two rear rod holders directly behind my seat and protrudes out the R/H side for the motor to mount onto.
A shovel handle was pretty much bang on in diameter for fitment in the rod holders and a 900mm length of 180mm x 30mm dressed timber becomes the transom, held together with some bed head/furniture bolts and some insert nuts so it can be dis-assembled for removal and storage. It worked out that the transom sits just far enough back that my kayak seat just leans on it so I now have a back rest for when I am 'fushing'

For your diy transom, consider making it slightly wider and mount the fuel tank on the opposite side to counterbalance the outboard.

Cool project, pls video the maiden voyage

Originally Posted by ebf

For your diy transom, consider making it slightly wider and mount the fuel tank on the opposite side to counterbalance the outboard.

Cool project, pls video the maiden voyage

Outboard has inbuilt tank, I may look to mount a small 2-3 litre tank on opposite side for spare fuel if required (unlikely, I want to keep weight down as much as possible). I will also be fitting rod holders to the rear of the transom to replace the ones I have used to support the mount.

Originally Posted by ROKTOY

Outboard has inbuilt tank, I may look to mount a small 2-3 litre tank on opposite side for spare fuel if required (unlikely, I want to keep weight down as much as possible). I will also be fitting rod holders to the rear of the transom to replace the ones I have used to support the mount.

That should keep reels a bit more out of the water too.

Originally Posted by ebf

For your diy transom, consider making it slightly wider and mount the fuel tank on the opposite side to counterbalance the outboard.

Cool project, pls video the maiden voyage

I need to make the transom more vertical, I couldn't get the outboard to sit upright enough before the mount ran out of adjustment, (easy fix)., but once I got the hang of it and it started to run properly it did pretty well. Not as noisy as I expected, pushed the kayak (5M) with myself and my 8 year old boy (under100kg combined) along pretty well. I got the speed wobbles a few times but once we all settled down I was rather impressed.
Pretty average videoing but you get the idea.
https://youtu.be/6tRshANRmfE