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Originally Posted by Finster
I believe the double bracket for a single "30 motor has 1000 lbs of bouancy to the water line.
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I even made my own mold off a seidleman sea craft bracket which is for a twin engine and I very much doubt that I could get enough bracket below the water line to even get 300 LBs of floatation at the most. If that much? What it does do is off set the engine weight which is much farther back from most of the real boat floatation. That is all! Now what it does do great is if you remove a V8 inboard and an IO outdrive. Also water logged engine beds. Yes most engines were lag bolted into wood under the glass. I have had these so heavy that I did not know it could be made to get that water logged. Then the transom and regular stringers can be made lighter also, sometimes.
I am doing a 20 ft potter right now that will have a much lighter transom but the bracket will be integral to the boats hull and new added stringers.