Power steering system for boats

Power steering system for outboard motors or inboard-outboard power units, comprising:

• a. a motor assembly having a power shaft and gears driving a propeller mounted on a horizontal rearward extending shaft, the motor assembly adapted for rotation about a hinge means having a vertical axis, said axis of rotation on the side of said motor assembly opposite to that of said propeller, said hinge means being adapted to be clamped to the stern of a boat;
• b. at least one control rudder means mounted on a vertical axis aft of said propeller and positioned in the slip stream of said propeller;
• c. a tubular socket attached to the forward portion of said motor assembly, the socket having a longitudinal slot therein;
• d. a cylindrical elongated arm means slidably received in said socket, the arm means being actuatable by a user;
• e. a pin affixed to said arm means slidably received in said slot in said socket providing limited movement of said arm means before guiding force is applied to said socket and thereby said motor assembly;
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• f. means coupling said arm means to said control rudder means;
• whereby when said arm means is pushed in one direction it will cause said rudder to rotate counterclockwise with respect to said motor assembly, whereby force of the slip stream on said rudder will cause torque to be applied to said motor assembly to rotate said motor assembly in a clockwise direction and vice versa.