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Old 10-13-2004, 11:12 AM
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Default Re: To bracket or not to bracket?

Ha John
This is just my opinion, but here it goes. I think, it would be really hard to improve on the 20 footer by adding a bracket, hoping to make it more that it really is. I once owned a 18 foot Hydrasport and “wanted a bigger boat” so I spent a lot of time thinking what I could do, which like you would mean adding a bracket. Well one day I saw a Hydrasport like mine with a bracket and after that I knew I did not want a bracket on a 18 foot boat. I ended up buying a bigger boat, my 23 CC which was the best decision I could have made. Smaller boats can propos on you, because of not having enough boat to handle the change in the center of gravity by adding a motor approx 3 feet behind the boat on a bracket. It seems to me, that somewhere around 23 foot long boats and longer have enough boat to handle this transfer of weight but on smaller ones you could have a problem. I know that can dash your hopes and maybe someone else has a different opinion than mine but for me “bigger is better” when it comes to brackets.
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