Re: Trailering boat with motor or not?

[chinewalker]

Save your money, don’t bother with a transom saver. Do get a bungee or line to tie the motor down to keep it from bouncing around. There is likely no road you’ll ever travel that will abuse your transom even close to what a cruise on a busy Saturday at the lake will do. The torque from even mild acceleration stresses the transom far more.

Also, a transom saver transmits any trailer stresses to the motor. If you make an emergency stop and the boat shifts, the motor can’t move with it. Yeah, I know, we ALWAYS tie our boats tightly, don’t we? 😉