Mini Outboard Brackets?

[thealife]

man, I dont know,
I have been in the water long enough to know that bare aluminium underwater is never good,

Ive seen a few things after spending over a third of my life at sea, especially with smaller boats,
1 better wet with fresh than salty
2 water will always make its way in, so it always needs a way out,
3 bronze, stainless and zinc can go underwater and stay bare, everything else gets painted and preferably out of the water and elements,

ok on the last one maybe not so true with outboards and anodized alu pipe structures, but an outboard has been treated and tested to stay underwater for reasonable amount of time with minimal corrosion,
Those lifting plates have too many moving parts, corners and sharp edges, even if it got powder coated, or even if did a full underwater treatment on it (hull guard, 545 etc..), it can and will corrode and then the 1000 bucks I spent on the finish will bubble up and fall off!
Maybe not the case with using the boat for the day, but the time I keep it in the water for a couple of weeks it will be the beginning of the end!

thats why I am looking at this mini bracket, really now thingking about it, for the sake of 7 inches (no pun here) i might as well keep it all original,