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I think I smell a business opportunity. You need to market that thing! ;D
Have one made out of aluminum to lighten it up a bit. ;)

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BS - VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE. :)
A must read for anyone contemplating going the bracket route.

I guess there isn't any article like this from Wellcraft, instead of Boston Whaler, or you would have already posted it. I sure would like to hear from them about the V21's molded bracket design.

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Wheras Gil got right back to me, I have not yet heard a peep from Armstrong *>:(. Good luck Victore.

That was a great article, but..... "The engine thrust will be applied with a longer moment arm to the boat's center of lateral resistance and the boat's center of gravity, producing greater leverage of the engine thrust on both the boat's course and the boat's trim." ....huh? Can anybody dumb this down for me?

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I can only talk of my boat, I am no engineer, and I did the work my self.
Did I get lucky?? Did I do something different?? *All I have to say is that the boat is great in the turns, at wot, and in heavy seas, It tracks straight as a arrow!!

I love and hope you have as good as luck as I have had!!

p.s. I will show you how to make a super transom saver if you want!!

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CT - I just look at the pictures . . . Seriously I have no idea what that guys is talking about . . . . there. I've seen MJ's boat in action and I was really impressed . . . it looks like a big stretch cadillac that just eats up waves.

You'll be fine with the braket w/o any extra transom saver contraptions. Bolt it on and go . . . you'll probably want trim tabs too.


SK - This is the best bracket read I come across so far . . . unfortunatly continouswave is all BW stuff. The short wellcraft bracket on the v21 is a very nice.

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BS - Like the article said, the molded bracket on the BW added greatly to the production cost. On the v21, also, it is a modification that required much additional skilled carpentry and glasswork on a boat by boat basis. The v21's molded bracket, like the BW molded bracket, is added to the boat after coming out of the original mold. The extra cost to produce the molded bracket, probably, put production of the v21/20 to death, as wellcraft could not or would not go back to the old style transomm due to marketing forces.

When my molded bracket transom rots ( not too soon, I hope), I will probably just chop it off rather than restore it. I think I would raise the transom along the original lines to accomodate a 30 inch shaft that should by then be available in a 150 hp motor. I would leave the well so that the motor could be tilted with a bracket setback at about 12 inches, if I even wanted to keep a bracket. Bracket or not I would have an "almost full transom". Actually, it would be more "full" than my current hull.

CT, All the author is saying is what I called see-saw physics in one of my former posts. Extend the weight of the motor 30 inches back and you make the bow rise (trim). When he is talking about thrust and course, he is just saying that putting the motor farther back increases the steering or turning force on the boat (the same see-saw, just turned sideways).