Patent ID: 6846211

Claim:
A cover joining structure in an outboard engine unit, the outboard engine unit including an engine; a propeller drivable by the engine; a drive shaft for transmitting a driving force from the engine to the propeller; a casing assembly supporting thereon the engine and rotatably supporting and accommodating therein the drive shaft, the outboard engine unit being attached via the casing assembly to a body of a boat during use of the outboard engine unit for tilting and steering movement; and a covering assembly defining at least part of an engine space for accommodating therein the engine, the covering assembly including separate left and right cover members; the cover joining structure comprising: fixedly joining sections provided on respective ones of opposed joining edges of the left and right cover members, the opposed joining edges of the left and right cover members being abutted against each other with the fixedly joining sections of the left and right cover members overlapped in face-to-face relation with each other in a front-and-rear direction of the outboard engine unit; and fastening means for fastening together the fixedly joining sections, overlapped in face-to-face relation, in the front-and-rear direction, to thereby join together the left and right cover members.