I have a smaller bracket on my sea ox thats fine, as for mounting in the horse shoe, tats why i said you have to measure.
As far as the flotation, your right I bet it would sink, but you are looking at it wrong, if you have a open bracket it allows the water to flood the bracket and the back will go down.
with a closed bracket, when back goes down it can't flood the bracket and helps with keeping the motor out of the water.
i took a ten foot wave and filled the v20 with water!! and i still say till today that the bracket when pushed up by a smaller wave is what saved us.
the motor was just about under and we were going in the water, when the wave pushed the motor up and it was running, gave it all the throttle i had and we made it out, after bailing fast with bucket we were able to make in to the harbor.
A open bracket will have not allowed for that, this is why a flotation bracket is recommended
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