23 CC Power Opinions

[FELLOW-SHIP]

Hi Professor


In the gallery the pictures were of a ongoing project. I did not take them with a mind set of steps to show others I just took some pictures from time to time as I worked. I didn’t even own a digital camera at that time. In fact, this web sight did not exist when I got started. Jayson and I where just doing our boats his up north and mine in Florida. He decided to do the web sight which we now all enjoy and all have benefited by (thanks Jayson). I did my boat kind of like a puzzle I would do so much here and then move to another spot and do something else depending on weather conditions, available materials, drying times, and projected time left in a day to do certain things. In the morning I might be putting one layer of ¾ plywood on the transom and in the afternoon sanding the paint off the hull. As for moving around the boat especially around the CC if I had to do it all over again I would have cut the CC down the middle and re moved 6-8” of the with so I could walk from bow to stern more easily with the rod holders on both sides of the CC and a 8’ beam is really not enough room with the original CC. As for the stern area that’s great plenty or room and there is no hazard in tripping over the splash well. It keeps the water in the splash well and it you want you can step over it to mess around the motor well no problems. As for the transom height the boat had a 30” transom height and I kept it that way.

In my opinion that is the only way to do for a single motor On the transom. If you go with twins or just like brackets I would only go with a flotation bracket Designed for Twins and use Either Light 4 cylinder 2 strokes or Any 250 you like. These three boat to motor set ups are Perfect for this boat. Now it is just a matter of personal preference. I will say though that you still should deal with the scuppers and move weight forward like I stated earlier to you.

FellowShip

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