[flyingfrizzle]

Mine will have two 395lb 2.5 mercury 200 hanging off the back on a bracket with minimum set back of about 22" to get the motors to tilt enough for road transport. The bracket will be likely at least 165lbs due to the large floatation chamber. The lay up is a little heavy so may end up more around 185lbs. I haven't tried to weigh it yet but may try to do so once I get the swim platform bond down to the other half. I know Im asking for trouble and do have some tanks that I am going to cut down and add under the cabin floor and in the nose section for water ballast. Mine has the larger head room with more drop down than the earlier models so there may have to be some give there to fit the tanks. Going to be hard to come up with 400 plus pounds with out lead. I do have some ballast bar lead that I use in my race car that I can move around to play with the cg but not enough space to contain all the weight. Plus I don't want to make it a pig either. It is already a heavy hull to start with. The large tank mid ship will be shortened and moved far forward as possible but not much help there as I will still need the capacity for the twin efis. There is a guy with twin 150s with an yellow hull in VA and if I remember he said he had 30 or 32 inches of setback on his and clamed it to ride fairly good but his fairly good may be different than mine or others. I have even thought about adding bladder tanks under the bedding section for additional fuel or water to help but then you loose you storage that is already limited. There will be tons of storage aft where the old io sat but adding fish and ice there will defiantly be a negative effect.