Patent ID: 6883451

Claim:
A steering system for an outboard motor mounted on a stem of a boat and having an internal combustion engine at its upper portion and a propeller with a rudder at its lower portion powered by the engine to propel and steer the boat, comprising: a swivel shaft connected to the propeller to turn the propeller relative to the boat; a swivel case fixed to the outboard motor and rotatably accommodating the swivel shaft; and a hydraulic actuator connected to the swivel shaft to rotate the swivel shaft, the hydraulic actuator having a shape whose height is larger than its width and being installed in such a manner that a direction of the height is in parallel with a vertical direction, such that the actuator does not project outside a profile of the outboard motor, obtained by looking down the outboard motor from downward in the vertical direction, regardless of a steered angle of the outboard motor.