Bob's Porta Braket

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Ha Ed
I also like the Hermco bracket and if I was going to use one I would look at theirs first. I especially like how deep on the transom the flotation chamber goes down. Some of these off the shelf brackets flotation chambers appear to serve more as a center trim tab than a counter balance for the offset, and the additional weight that needs to be compensated for. Another thing that usually is a inherent problem is the height of the bracket location, for me 30” shaft motors are the only way to go, and if I was setting a boat up for the smaller twins I would still want two 30” shaft motors and have the bracket made with those considerations in mind I think that the flotation chambers need to be designed to offset the “extra height” and extra weight. One of the things I have noticed is how the extra weight with the balance offset causes the motor to dip into the sea when one is drifting and on usually those some boats how the brackets plow down into the sea when they back down on fish this could be a potential nightmare ready to happen. Some day someone is going to scrap this whole method of attached brackets to transom with bolts and start making a new one altogether a (one piece) uni transombracket by removing most of the transom and starting from there with epoxy and glass.
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