Peter,
My dad's boat has a 6-inch manual jack plate on the original notched transom and no hard top. It used to have a full bimini enclosure but he took it off when he got into flyfishing a couple years ago. Before the current power and jack plate there was a '89 225 Evinrude. Performance was similar with that engine, the only major difference being the boat's ability to plane at lower speeds now with the jack plate.
