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Originally Posted by Terry England

Toteboat, You are ruined. From this point forward, nothing else will do.
I cut 6 trapezoid 6" X 6" inspection ports in my '67 floor because I was sure after 49 years even though the deck felt solid - it couldn't possibly be. They had really good fir plywood back then and Carl must have saturated it, because not only were the decks perfect in all but one spot about 12" X 12", but the box stringers and lamination to the hull were still in excellent condition. I epoxied the inspection plates back in, ground off the excess, laid two layers of 3/4 oz. matt over the whole floor and gel coated some no-skid sand strips back in. That was in '06. Done a lot of "Cross-tie walkin" in that shallow water off of Bayport for 25 miles coming and go'in since then. I got friends with 23 Mako's and 223 Formulas/stretched Contenders that burn 3 times the fuel and need an F-350 or 2500 Suburban to drag their stuff around. They can't afford to run with me and when they do they they can't keep up.
Run the 140 Mercruiser unit until it dies or the gimbal bearings make you crazy or the alternator falls off and then think about a 90 or 115 outboard on a hydraulic jack plate with a little notch, up high so you can tilt the motor in the "up" position. If you hang a 200 30" back it's liable to start "Hobby Horse'in" on 'ya.
Lots of good data on this site and the same exact number of opinions as members so get in your Tyvek suit, put on your safety glasses, Kevlar gloves, steel toed boots and hard hat and stand by for instructions!
And remember, you don't have any "potter putty" in your Moesly SeaCraft because Carl fit everything together properly with structural integrity, so vote for the tee shirts with the Sea Craft in Script Font because every vote counts except in Broward County where they count a couple of times if you got a "D" on your voting registration.

"We'll said" especially the last part..