Turning I/O into outboard with bracket

[KenB]

I have done the floors casting platform the whole enchilada, I was body work and paint away from dropping the I/O in. Until I took the sawzall to it :-) I plan to cap the top of the transom off, heres what she looks like now

You can see I cut more toward the transom as I didn't want to screw myself trying to do something with the top cap to meet my new transom cap, I came back 16" from the transom which is where my new cap will be.

You did that in one day!!?? NICE!

Looks like you got a great work space too. How does the transom look? Mine is toast, but even it if wasn't, I would probably be redoing it because I wonder if the stock i/o transom were beefy enough to mount a hermco bracket. Keep it up!

Sawzall seems to answer lots of questions...

By the way, I am not planning extend my deck all the way to the transom, but I will make a 2 of those tubes (with flappers) for deck drains. I figure it will be a lot easier to mount the bracket that way.