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Old 12-01-2007, 02:32 PM
JohnB JohnB is offline
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Default Re: 20' SeaCraft - better w/ or w/o a bracket ???

I have a question for the guys that have brackets on their boats. If you have a hermco bracket, is it contacting the water when you on plane? If it is, that is more wet area, and your loosing effieciency, and defeating one of the reasons to have a bracket in the first place???

I thought one of the big ideas of a bracket is you could take a 23' boat, turn it into a 27', without increasing the wet area/aka drag. This allows you to put big motors on the back and have extra floatation when at rest when you need it, and less drag/per foot on the hull when under way. If the bracket is dry when your running, it adds zero floatation. I am putting an armstrong on mine, and looking at it, it appears that it will not contact the water when on plane, and the floatation chamber only adds floatation when at rest.
Am I missing something?
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