Thread: Bracket Project
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Old 11-15-2006, 04:06 PM
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Default Re: Bracket Project




The dimensions were tough to figure out. Luckily strick had worked through it before.

This bracket will have a 26" setback. Supposedly you need to raise the motor one inch for every 12" of setback. So I made the bracket 23" tall which gives me a 4" gap at the bottom for the hull drain plugs. 25" + 2" (to account for the setback) => 27" = 23" (bracket height) + 4".

The width is 38" b/c that was the width of the fiberglass fabric I used.

13 degrees is what I measured for the angle of the transom.

When I calculated the positive floatation . . . I got somewhere around 400 lbs (depending on the final weight of the bracket.
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