Abstract: A drive arrangement for watercrafts, especially for boats with an engine installed inboard and with a Z-drive arranged outboard, which is pivotally arranged at the rear wall of the boat about an essentially horizontal axis and which can be pivoted by at least one lifting cylinder installed transversely to the pivot axis between the Z-drive and the boat wall; the lifting cylinder is thereby rigidly secured to the housing of the Z-drive and is connected with the place of connection on the side of the boat by way of a link structure which cooperates with the lifting cylinder as also with the connecting place by way of a pivot bearing.