Patent ID: 6941921

Claim:
An outboard motor comprising: an engine; a mount case on which the engine is mounted; a cover structure that covers the engine; an exhaust release pipe for releasing at least part of an exhaust gas from the engine into the air outside the outboard motor, the exhaust release pipe having an outlet portion projecting outward of the cover structure through an opening formed in the cover structure; and elastic seal means for creating a hermetic seal between the cover structure and the exhaust release pipe while closing the opening of the cover structure, the elastic seal means having a retaining portion engaged with the cover structure or the exhaust release pipe to retain the seal means on the cover structure or the exhaust release pipe, a first seal portion separate from the retaining portion and in sealing contact with the cover structure, a second seal portion separate from both the retaining portion and the first seal portion and in sealing contact with the exhaust release pipe, and an offset absorbing portion elastically deformable to absorb an offset between the exhaust release pipe and the opening of the cover structure without affecting the hermetic seal created between the cover structure and the exhaust release pipe.