In an outboard motor control system, equipped with two outboard motors and
actuators for steering, changing shift position and regulating engine
speed, two navigation units responsive to operations of the operator for
producing outputs indicative of actuator operation commands, two ECUs
that control the operation of the actuators based on the outputs from the
navigation units, an output forwarding ECU which forwards the outputs of
one of the navigation units to the ECUs, and two switchover buttons for
changing the outputs to be forwarded. Therefore, only the set of outputs
for the one navigation unit selected by the operator is sent to the ECUs.
In other words, in the case where multiple navigation units are provided,
use of the navigation units is limited to a desired one thereof, so that
the outboard motors can be stably controlled even when the control inputs
to the individual navigation units are different.