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I had some pics of that boat that deperado was trying to sell. The boat was half torn apart. You could see the new stringer system. The stringers ran back into the bracket. The Seamarks have stringers in them already so the only thing separating the boat stringers and the bracket stringers is the thickness of the transom.
So whats all the hype about integral brackets? The claim is that boats with a integral bracket will handle better... are faster to responde when you hit the throttle.

I guess I'd have to see it to believe it.

If you think about it the integral bracket boat should respond to the throttle about the same as when the motor was mounted to the transom before they made the integral bracket. The only difference being that the boat now handles like a boat 30 inches longer.
I happen to think that the Seamark or any other well built bracket when bolted and glued with 5200 to the back of a structurally sound boat functions as one unit with the boat.
I think that these guys who claim that their boat handles sooooo much better with the integral bracket are actually lost in that tranfixed state of euphoria you get when you feel how much better the boat handles now that it it 30 inches longer. I just dont see how integral strigers can make it handle any better at all... that is unless someone can convince me otherwise. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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