Small Outboard Motors, 2.5HP to 30HP, Ready to Ship

Finding the right outboard motor for sale shouldn’t mean wading through hundreds of listings that don’t fit your boat. Small Outboards Motors focuses on one part of the market: small outboard motors and portable outboard motors in the 2.5HP to 30HP range, the sizes that power tenders, inflatables, jon boats, small fishing boats, and pontoons. If you’ve been searching for boat motors for sale, outboard engines for sale, or small boat motors that won’t overwhelm a light hull, this is the range built for exactly that.

Our catalog brings together outboard boat motors for sale from six manufacturers, so you can compare options instead of committing to a single brand’s lineup. Shoppers looking for a mercury outboard motor will find Mercury FourStroke models from 8HP up to 30HP, while mercury outboard engines for sale in the 20 hp outboard and 25HP classes are popular picks for boats that need to plane with a load aboard. Buyers set on yamaha boat motors can shop Yamaha’s F-series portable outboard engines from 2.5HP through 25HP, a lineup well known for smooth, quiet running. For small honda outboard motors, our Honda BF lineup runs from a 2.3HP ultra-portable model up through a 30 hp outboard motor, with the honda outboards known for reliability season after season.

Portable outboard is the right word for most of what we carry. A 5hp outboard motor or 5hp boat motor — including a 5hp honda outboard — is light enough for one person to carry and mount without special equipment, and the same goes for our 6hp outboard options from Suzuki, Yamaha, Honda, and Tohatsu. Stepping up, a 10 hp outboard adds towing power for slightly larger boats, and a 20 hp outboard or 20 hp outboard engine gives enough performance to get a loaded boat on plane. At the top of our range, a 30 hp outboard motor is the choice for pontoons and larger small boats that need real reserve power.

Not every buyer wants a gasoline engine, and we don’t treat electric as an afterthought. Our electric outboard motor lineup from Torqeedo covers everything from ultralight transom motors for kayaks and small tenders to cruising-power electric boat motors for pontoons and daysailers. An electric boat motor runs quieter than a gasoline engine, needs less mechanical maintenance, and produces no direct exhaust — trade-offs worth weighing against a gasoline motor’s longer range and faster refueling before you buy outboard motors for your specific boat.

Beyond the motors themselves, we carry a curated set of parts and accessories sized for this same 2.5HP–30HP range — propellers, jack plates rated for small outboards, batteries, and switches — so you’re not left searching a separate site once your new motor arrives. Whichever size you land on, every product page lists real specifications, pricing, and availability pulled directly from our current inventory, and shipping across the USA, Canada, and Latin America is calculated at checkout once you know exactly what you’re ordering.

Browsing outboard motors for sale is easier when the listings are already narrowed to boats like yours. That’s the idea behind this catalog: instead of a general marketplace of boat engines for sale in every size imaginable, every small outboard motor boats owner sees here tops out at 30HP. First-time buyers often start with a 5hp outboard motor for a dinghy or tender, then move up as their boat changes; others land straight on a 20HP or 30HP model because that’s what their transom is rated for. Either way, our portable outboard engines are grouped by brand, horsepower, and engine type so you can go from browsing to checkout without leaving this page — search above, filter the full catalog below, or use the Find Your Outboard tool to get there faster.