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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JeraTwo" data-source="post: 518135" data-attributes="member: 36336"><p>Great and interesting remarks.  Did you ever find a solution to preventing the motors from entering the boats when whacking something at speed causing the bypass valve to allow the engines to come flying up into the boats?  It seems it would be much safer to let the lower units sheer off, or at least have some sort of shock absorber built in that would absorb the shock and prevent the outboard from slamming the transom so hard on the upswing, that is snaps off and potentially enters into the bilge area of the boat.  I run an MFS50A Tohatsu Tiller on a jack plate, and there is a clearance issue whereby the motor can only be trimmed up about 70% before the tiller arm hits the top of the transom. If I were to hit something at speed, it sounds like the motor might slam up, break the tiller off, and I'd be left with a screaming motor and no way to control it or shut it down.  Any ideas/thoughts on how to resolve, short of removing the jack-plate?</p></blockquote><p></p>