Apparatus and methods for transporting a marine outboard engine include securing a marine outboard engine to an engine support cart having a pair of rear wheels and a pair of front wheels, wheeling the engine support cart into a cage assembly, and mounting a removable dolly assembly to the cage assembly. The dolly assembly includes a floor-engaging wheel. The marine outboard engine transportation apparatus with the marine outboard engine secured within is balanced on the pair of rear wheels and the floor-engaging wheel when the cage assembly is tilted backwards.

An outboard motor support and transport system including a support cart having a support frame member with a first side substantially perpendicular to a second side and a third side inclined to the first and second side, a handle member coupled to a first end of the first side of the support frame, a first pivot member coupled to a second end of the first side of the support frame, and a second pivot member formed between the second and third sides of the support frame and a support rack member having a storage cavity with an opening at a first end, wherein the first pivot member of the support cart configured to transport the support cart and the support rack member.