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The Sea Drive is pretty unique. My motor tilts completely out of the water and the set back is still less than 12" (maybe I need to go down and measure to be sure). For sure though, the boat overall w/the motor down is 23'2" (and they still let me use a 22' slip). So figure about two feet for the length of the motor itself and that gets you to an 8" set back. Even if the motor is only 18" long (and I doubt even a lowly V4 is that short), that's still just a 14" set back. The Sea Drive came before positive flotation brackets so I don't think manufacturers could hang motors back as far as they can today. And there were V6 Sea Drives up to 235 hp. which would be awfully heavy 30" back without some help from additional flotation. Plus there is no swim platform integrated with the Sea Drive - I have a teak add on to the port side of the unit - so no need to put the motor too far back for that purpose either. If I have to go that far back with a new platform, I'm SOL with my current slip and I'd have to get on a pretty long wait list for the 22-28' category. Looks like no repower on my horizon unless there is a modern bracket with less set back.