Found the lost motor this morning

Well we found the lost motor this morning with sonar and took a grabbling hook and retrieved it from the lake. Thank everyone that has give us ideas and setting to help find it. A Friend of mine had a 7" Helix si chirp 2nd Gen. that made this picture and way point to find it. Will show pictures of what the 25 hp 4 stroke evindrude looked like at the bottom of the lake. I would also like to say that if anyone ever has to retrieve a motor take plenty of help because they are very very heavy to get off the bottom. If you look right above the prop you can see the little square battery that showed up best to let us know this was the motor. The owner is headed to the boat motor shop to have it fixed. I will let everyone know how that goes later also. If anyone has a boat motor that is not bolted to the transom please drill the holes and bolt it as the little screw clamps will not hold it secure enough. No one was hurt from this motor this time coming off but a few years ago a girl lost her arm from a motor that come off and flipped back it the boat.

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glad you found it, just goes to show presistance pays off.

Great, I hope he can save it.

Awesome Reconnaissance and Recovery (R&R) Mission right there for sure. Congrats on a job well done.

Well I just heard from my friend that they have already got his motor fixed and running already. They said they drilled the motor transom holes and bolted it down this time for him. When we found the motor it was in reverse I don't think he hit something I thing he reversed it while running wide open but who knows. He said it cost him less than $200.00 for the boat motor mechanic to get it fixed and back to running. Motor was under water about 10 to 11 days. Here is a picture of it when we got it up and back in his boat. All I can say is he was really lucky as this motor cost close to $5000.00 new and it had less than 3 hours on it. I would like to say again if your motor is not bolted through the transom do it before you take it back out again the little motor clamps will not hold it if something happens.:twocents

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I did not expect it to look so clean after being on the bottom. Great find and retrieve

Yaw did good! Congrats on the recovery!

Congrats on finding motor. Amazing they fixed it up that fast.

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I did not expect it to look so clean after being on the bottom. Great find and retrieve

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Couldn't put it in the other boat while it was in the deeper water. So we tied it to the side of our bass tracker boat and taxied it to shallow water to be able to lift it in the john boat. Figure a lots of the mud was washed of then.

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Congrats on finding motor. Amazing they fixed it up that fast.

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I figured that they got it fixed so fast because they sold the rig new to him. But they are a really good company as far as I have heard.

Gibson Saw & Marine - Gilbertown, Alabama

I had a 25 Nissan years ago, that stayed under water for two weeks. Got it home , drained the foot, drained the carb, cranked it over with no plugs. Installed new plugs and it’s still running today. That was Christmas Eve 2001.


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Is the warrenty void now?

Great job on finding and retreiving the motor. Persistance pays off. Could you show pictures on how it's bolted through the transom. Thank you...

Good that he found it, and thank God it was fresh water.
I recently bought a new Alweld Jon boat and a 20 hp Mercury from a west coast dealer.
When they mounted the motor i wasent permitted to be in the shop, it wasen’t even in the shop anyway but outside.
But i had told them i wanted the motor bolted thru the 2 holes Mercury provided for it.
It took two 5/16 by about 2 3/4” bolts and probably all of 15 minits.
They didn’t even demonstrate how the motor functioned, and simply brought it to my vehicle when they were finished.
I had already paid for the boat and motor earlier by credit card, but they wanted $50 bucks more for the bolts which i paid. Mind you I’m glad it’s bolted, especially after reading about this incident. But for the $50 bucks i would have done it myself. Unfortunately there are no Alweld dealers on the east coast, and I’ve told Alweld they need one.

Purchased a couple of bolts the other day, glad you found the motor.

Well my friend was back out on the lake this morning with the motor he had lost. It was running just fine. So just in case someone loses there motor it is possible to be found with sonar.

Never thought the image would look like that on imaging but glad everything worked out and got it back to working again.

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Never thought the image would look like that on imaging but glad everything worked out and got it back to working again.

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That is a picture of the motor on his sonar after he stopped the sonar and enlarged the sonar picture to make sure it was the motor he was looking at.

Congratulations on finding the motor! What fish finder unit did you use?

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Congratulations on finding the motor! What fish finder unit did you use?

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How deep of water was the motor in? This is a really cool story. I would have cried if my motor came off and sank to the bottom of the lake...


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How deep of water was the motor in? This is a really cool story. I would have cried if my motor came off and sank to the bottom of the lake...


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It was in 12 to 14' water. All we can figure is while running wide open he accidentally hit the reverse leaver or it just wasn't tight enough on transom. He didn't have it bolted to the transom then but it is bolted now.

Had this happen to me. 14 foot boat with 9.9 Evinrude 2 stroke.Older motor but always ran like a champ. It was clamped on but was mounted like that for @ 3 years.

Was trying a lake not familiar with and went down a rather bad road to the launch. Evidently it had loosened the clamp mount. Anyway after 2 hours of fishing here and there. I figured to try a section of lake I was a little more familiar with. As I opened the throttle to full speed it literally jumped off the transom . It ran in gear until submerged enough to stall out.

I though it was going to rip my arm off before it stalled. Regardless of how strong you think you are. This was a bear of a task. Somehow I don't think my right arm has been the same since. When I arrived home after this. I pulled plugs and let dry for 24 hours under a heat lamp. Re-installed plugs fired it up. It ran just as before until I sold boat and motor.

If anyone thinks " I am not worried my motor has been clamped for years. ". Just figured my debacle might convince you to use bolts.