[yachtjim]

Awesome work. I'll be doing a tear down like that in a year or two to take care fo a soft transom and decks. I just installed that new rigging tube from Yamaha that you are using but had a hard time getting enough flex in the whole assembly since the boat and rigging were not desinged to use a tube like that. I mounted my flange with the threads inside of the boat instead of outside the boat like you have it to get me a few more inches of flex. Looks great either way, really cleaned up the mess of hoses and wires I had back there. Our boats look very similar, same size/color/and both bottom painted, with a Yamaha hanging off the back.