[mpwitte]

The boats are very heavy and sit rather deep. This one (the first) was a couple of hundred pounds extra heavy as the hull was reverse engineered from a regular I/O hull. Draft on this one was about 28" to the tip of the rudder. If you look at the rudder you can see it extending well below the prop. This was actually a little excessive and the rudder on the next one was 2 or 3 inches shorter.Steering response was still very good. I never liked Seacraft's square rudder and most I have seen have had an extension welded to the aft end to improve the response. I didn't want the rudder to extend beyond the transom as we were trying to keep the stern as clean as possible.

Mike.