I picked up this interesting piece at a local sale over the weekend. I didn’t really know a whole lot about it, other than that it was an early outboard motor powered by a lawn mower motor.

After doing some research, along with a good degrease and clean it turns out this is a Mermaid Outboard Motor powered by a VICTA 125cc Engine. Dates from the late 1950’s to early 1960’s.

There is a great discussion on a forum here – http://board.net.au/yabbse/index.php?topic=904.0 about the Mermaid/Victa Outboards. Be sure to have a read.

Although a little knocked around this item will provide a great deal of hard to find parts to someone restoring a similar type of engine! Will be listing on eBay within the coming weeks.