Motor mount for canoes

A motor mount designed to be affixed to the outwardly or inwardly projecting gunwales of a wide variety of canoes, comprising two side rails and two crosspieces that together form a framework that can be affixed to a canoe wherein the side rails comprise two U-shaped members of equal length provided with elastic linings that can be attached to the outside of outwardly projecting gunwales or to the inside of inwardly projecting gunwales;

• each U-shaped side rail having at each end portion a rotatable clamping device having its axis of rotation perpendicular to the top and bottom flanges of the U-shaped side rails;
• the crosspieces consisting of front and rear members that can be slid through and/or clamped tight in said clamping devices, so that the U-shaped side rails and the crosspieces form a frame-work that has two opposite sides with the same length between their respective clamping devices and two sides formed by the crosspieces between the clamping devices that can be freely varied in length by sliding said crosspieces through said clamping devices;
• the end of one of the crosspieces being located outside the nearest clamping device and carrying a motor mounting on which to mount a propulsion motor, said framework being foldable together so that the U-shaped side rails and the crosspieces lie close to each other.