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Old 01-06-2005, 09:41 AM
strick strick is offline
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Default Re: 20ft SeaCraft With Twin V4's??? Just Thinking OL..

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Finster..as you guy's get to know me you'll find that I'm dead set against bracketed outboards. Unless the boat was designed from the mold up to handle the engine(S) 30" behind the hull most don't run the way they should. I think it's an especially bad idea on seacrafts because you are putting the best part of the wave cutting deep vee in the air where it won't do you any good.
I'll call you out on this one dunk [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] While I agree with you that the boat must be properly designed or structurally capable of holding the motor on a bracket I disagree that it changes the running surface and puts the wave cutting portion of the boat too high in relation to the water. At rest a good bracket provides enough flotation to offset the center of gravity difference. It may take a bracketed boat a second longer to get on plane then when before it was bracketed.....but once on plane the running surface/water contact area should be virtually the same. Here are a couple pics of my boat before and after the bracket. Looks like I actually gained a little flotation. I also have some running shots that show the boat is riding pretty close to where it was when it was a notched transom. I dont have a way of loading them right now because this computer does not have the right software.





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