Hey Denny,
Yeah, it was me talking with PharmD over on THT. Sounds like he's on the right track, it's all over but the cryin' now!
Had to make a correction though, I started doing this stuff in 1965. So I guess it's more like 48 years instead of 25. You'd think I would've been smart enough to figure out a better way to make a living by now, huh?
BTW, I've had a few SeaVees and Whitewaters in the past. But they were all transom mount singles, or twins, and one inboard. Never a bracket. The one I have now had an Armstrong bracket when I bought it. I thought I'd probably just take it off and mount the engine on the transom where it's supposed to be. But, ya know, after a year I'm starting to like it.
The other singles were 225's and ran about 30 mph @4400. This one is a 250 and runs about 34 @ 4400. And having a back porch aint bad either. The open transom ones were self bailing by about 4 inches and they had wave doors so that wasn't really an issue. But.... as has been discussed before.... when you're forced down to the 3200 to 3600 hundred rpm range in a bad head sea, well, I'll take the transom mount!
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