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Originally Posted by 215robert
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Looks like Colin does a very nice fabrication job! However I don't understand why Armstrong and others give up so much flotation by angling the bracket up at the aft end instead of coming straight out like the Hermco shown below. Rather than trying to minimize drag in the "transition-to-planing" speed range that you spend little time in, I think Potter had a better idea when he designed the straight out bottom which, in addition to maximizing volume, also creates a "trim-tab" effect (additional stern lift) by being in the water when you're climbing up on plane. Don Herman used to make a living rigging production boats at a plant in Ft. Pierce, and that experience shows up in his clean rigging system that runs rigging through the flotation tank underneath the swim platform instead of across it.