Re: Trailering boat with motor or not?

[mr-asa]

quote Tubs:

I look at this picture and have a hard time
believing that force being applied here
doesn’t far exceeds anything the transom
would experience going down the road.
That doesn’t mean I’m correct but it is what
I believe.

Disclaimer: All of this is BS until proven otherwise.

If you ask me, on the water you have differences from the type of support the boat has, damping of any thrust, the ability of the entire boat to move when it’s on the water Vs on a trailer, and a couple other things.

Boats are designed to be on the water with a motor pushing them. That motor’s thrust has a direct relation to a couple of factors, but the biggest one is the amount of slip inherent in a prop trying to move water. A motor on a transom attached to a boat on a trailer is going to get jerked around more violently because your biggest factor is going to be the coefficient of friction from tires on pavement is going to be much higher than a boat on water.