Dion, Guido, and Payton Hibdon, son, father and grandson are now owners of Motormate.  Dion says, "The etech steering cable problem is now solved.  I cannot believe how it stabilizes the motor.  What a great product!"

- Signed Dion Hibdon

ITS A KEEPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish I had this product a year ago! Last year I had a Bassmaster regional on Lay lake in Alabama.   During those trips to Alabama from northeast Tennessee, I broke a "motor toter". While in Alabama I found a small boat repair shop and got another "motor toter". About two weeks later, I went back to Alabama, to lake Guntersville, to fish another tournament. After another week long trip, I was venturing home through Chattanooga and hit road construction that had a lot of broken and uneven pavement.I  noticed while driving through the construction that my motor was bouncing. I pulled off of intersate, and I had broken yet another "motor toter". This time I took my trailer scotches and zip ties to crib my motor up to make it home. So when I ran across the Motormate it was an ABSOLUTE NO-BRAINER. Since installing the Motormate on my boat I have had no problems, even on miles of washboard dirt roads in Florida . The conveniance and durability of the Motormate is second to none. If you love your boat and want to travel with peace of mind, install a Motormate. I promise you. You will not regret it!

Tim Saylor

I recently purchased a motormate for my Ranger bass boat. I am very pleased with the easy installation, and how easy the product is to store on my boat while I am on the lake. I also love the excellent design and how well it protects my transom, while pulling my boat. Great value to ensure the protection of your vessel.

Charlie

 I recently traveled from North Carolina to Lake Toho and back. While in Florida I installed the Motormate motor support system on my rig. I am very impressed with the unit. It simply makes the launch and load operation much quicker with less parts to keep up with. Now when I am launching or unloading, I don't have to store a long cumbersome motor support and the two plastic "clips" that kept my hydraulic steering straight. The Motormate does all this and stores easily in about any compartment on the boat! And talk about tough, the roads I traveled while in Florida were very far from smooth. One of my friends as well as myself, both of us using the Motormate support, traveled on an unpaved road for about two miles. It was what we call a washboard road, very rough to say the least. Not one problem! All in all, the Motormate  motor support simply makes your trailering experience much quicker and easier. Just clip it in place with the spring loaded heavy duty retention rods, straighten your motor as you normally do to ensure proper weight distribution on the Motormate support, and lower the motor snuggly down on the support. Thanks Motormate, for making a great product and also for making it here, in the USA!

                                                                                                                                          Thanks Again,

                                                                                                                                           Bucky Helms

I am a proud owner of a motormate ,and I have had it going three years. The first six months I had a North Carolina state tournament in New Bern , and on the way back a car ran us off the road.There were big holes on the edge of the road, and the boat went so high in the air that the front yoke came off the boat and slid back about 6 to 8 inches. The motormate didn't move.If i had had a normal transom saver, three inches back would have cost me and the twenty cars behind me a lot of trouble. I fish about sixty bass tournaments a year and will always have a motormate on my boat. It has a lot of safety advantages that are great, but some people dont think of that as much as the convenience of storage. It will fit in most compartments in your boat.  Have a great safe fishing year.   thanks bryan

Protect Your Transom - Stabilize Your Motor

By Jim Smith
Southern Staff Writer

July 22, 2010

We all know that if you take care of your equipment by regular and routine maintenance it will perform like it was designed to, when it is needed.  This goes for any and all of your fishing tackle; rods, reels, lures and accessories that you have spent your hard earned money on.

For those who fish for money, these items are valuable tools and if you don’t take care of them, they will contribute to your lack of success sooner or later.  There is no skill substitute for having the right tool in proper working condition to successfully perform that job when called upon.

Everyone has seen the new outboard motor trailering supports that are becoming more popular every day, and most everyone has a preference as to the type of support to use when it’s time to hit the road.  There has been a lot of talk on the various fishing and boating message boards about the differences between the “transom saver/motor toter/motor support” devices, and I have been involved in many of them myself.

All of these devices fall into one of two major categories: lower unit to trailer (or long bar), and lower unit to motor mount (or short bar), and there are plenty of differences in the way that they work and the benefit that they provide.

               I feel the short bar style provides the important benefit of isolating the lower unit from the independent movement of the trailer.  The basic argument is that the trailer can and will move independently of the boat and motor, no matter how well you strap down your boat, and that by creating a connection between the lower unit of the motor and the trailer, we are introducing added stress to the lower unit (by trying in effect to separate the strapped down boat from the trailer with your tilt powered lower unit).

This added stress is amplified whenever the trailer receives shock from impact with holes and bumps in the road, not to mention the force introduced when the boat shifts on the trailer.

Add to this the uncontrolled swiveling of the steering pivot, and the lower unit paint scuffing and these few negatives alone are enough reasons for me to choose the short bar style over the long bar style.

The transoms in modern boats are built to handle the weight of the motor that it is rated for, but not necessarily to handle the uncontrolled gravitational impact of a loose motor being shaken on the back of the boat.

Have you ever observed the way a motor moves and shakes on the back of a boat when it is being trailered over rough roads and thought about the wear on all of the bushings and other rigging connections, as well as the extra transom stress? Whether you prefer a long or short bar solution, you need to stabilize and eliminate as much of the movement as possible of your motor in order to protect your rigging, including your transom, from the harmful effects of gravity and movement.

Whether you choose the multiple piece solution of a sleeve type with steering clips such as the M-y Wedge, or a single piece solution that completely stabilizes the steering pivot as well, such as the Lock-n-Haul, there are several short bar style solutions to choose from and any of them do better jobs of stabilizing the motor than the long bar style.

I encourage you to do a little study on the solutions that are available to you and to make it a priority to “Protect your transom...stabilize your motor. 

-Taken from "http://insideline.net/index.php/equipment/206-protect-your-transom-stabilize-your-motor"