[flyingfrizzle]

Well while I wait for a good warm day to bond the core in with the thickened epoxy I decided to move forward with the build and get the outboard bracket built. I got some 3/4" melamine from home depo and started to figure out how I was going to build the bracket. I decide to make the flotation tub as large as possible so I can get as much flotation at rest as possible. With the deep vee on this hull I think I should be able to get a fair amount more out of it than the one I did on my 20'secptre. I will be going 60" wide which will take it out almost to the outer edges of the second or middle steeps on the hull. I am coming up 2" from the hull bottom to allow for the water rise and following the deadrise of the second panel. This is a 20 degree panel and will give me about a 40 degree vee on the bottom of the tub. I thought about following the steeps of the hull bottom and changing it from 20 to the 26.5 degree of the first panel but think I will keep it a constant grade across both panels. This will allow me 4" at the bottom of the vee so I can get two garboard drain plugs at the back of the transom with out having clearance problems with the tub. The variable deadrise would look cool on the bottom of the tub but would not work well with the drains and it dose not add much air space so it would be a lot of extra work for little gain. The set back will be 22". I want to keep it to a absolute minimum so it dose not kill the balance of the hull too bad. At 22" I hope to be able to tilt the motors up enough to clear for safe travel and for good clearance in shallow water if needed. If I cant obtain full tilt I will limit the tilt on the motors so it will never hit the top of the rear of the transom but with twins space out wide it might actual clear tilted all the way up.