[adamcannon]

Thank you for the input. The stern weight is one of my biggest worries. I have removed the infloor baitwell. I am thinking about putting it in the box seat in front of the console. I think the specs said the dry weight of my boat is around 1400lbs. I am taking out every piece of wood in the boat and replacing it with pinski board. It is about 1/3 of the weight of plywood and just as strong. So I would expect the over all weight of the boat would be reduced considerably. The gas tank had been replaced but who ever did it did a shotty job. All the wood over the tank was rotten and water logged. The stern was also very bad. I am also going to grind all the wood out of the gunwales and replace it with composite. The previous owner had a 100hp yamaha four stroke on it and said it did fine. I would think it would be very bad on the hole shot with that motor, but I could be wrong. Those motors I am pretty sure are over 400lbs. The bracket I am getting is positive floatation so I am hoping that will help with stern weight at least at a stand still. I was wondering if anyone had done anything with moving the gas tank forward to compensate for the motor being an extra 26" off the back of the boat. Seems like it would help but I dont want to do anything that will hurt the performance of the boat.