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I knew Roger before he passed away a few year ago. I thought he did a good job building boats . . . he loved the chopper gun . . . not sure how his brother builds the brackets.

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Originally Posted by seabass08 (Post 220089)

. . . His bracket design is different in that he extends the running surface of the hull instead of raising the bracket up a few inches from the bottom of the transom the way everyone else does. Does anyone here have any experience or opinions on Bill or this type of bracket design and how it will effect the ride of the boat?

Any feedback is appreciated! I will post a couple pictures of my boat and some of the boats he has done. He did say that he doesnt think he has done a bracket for a 23 seacraft yet but Did one for a 21 several years back.
Thanks - sb

Carla brought her dad (Carl Moesly) by my house to see my boat after I had the bracket installed. I asked him what he thought about the bracket and his response was "Why not just make the whole boat longer?!" Blue Heron has recently found some technical info on the performance characteristics of planning hulls that says that Moesly's instinct was absolutely correct, as one might expect from a guy with his experience! A bracket that extends the planning surface of the hull will give you all of the benefits of a bracket and NONE of the disadvantages! It will need to be seriously stout however, with real stringers, etc. I'd want a layup similar to the original (see attachment), no chopper gun stuff!

Don...I like the new additional angle on the fwd facing transom edge. That should add a lot of strength. Only your bracket would make outboards on a downeast boat look that good!

Made it from one off molds using a transom splash they sent me, their design parameters, and what I know about building fiberglass brackets from Bill Potters design. Came out pretty cool man. :D

Hermco, That bracket is sweet, I like the way it has foam filler stringers built into the flotation chamber. Looks great on that Atlantic.

The Atlantic is definitely a well built vessel. They take a lot of care in the quality of their build.

Anyway back to topic, here is a Whaler hull extension bracket I did a couple years ago, I built the bottom off the hull and added one of my bracket lids from the molds.

http://www.hermco.net/whaler/1.JPG

http://www.hermco.net/whaler/2.JPG

http://www.hermco.net/whaler/3.JPG

http://www.hermco.net/whaler/4.JPG

http://www.hermco.net/whaler/5.JPG

http://www.hermco.net/whaler/6.JPG

They work well on RIBs too. Here is one of two I did for the local Sea Tow dude last year, gets used every day,

http://www.hermco.net/ribs/1.JPG

http://www.hermco.net/ribs/2.JPG

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Originally Posted by hermco (Post 220541)

Denny,
Here is one I did recently for Atlantic Boat Company. :D
Video on their site, http://www.atlanticboat.com/boats/the-duffy-29h

I didn't realize you built that bracket.

Nice job man.