[spareparts]

Builder, looking at your pics, it looks like you could add floatation compartments under your platform on each side that could double as afterplanes while getting your boat out of the hole without sinking your motor, I've seen a platform like that before, just can't remember where. The added floatation would alow the boat to set level when at rest, and when getting on plane, the bottom surface of the floatation compartments would act like big fixed tabs, once on plane, these areas would be out of the water, so as to not add drag. I've also seen a plate that bolts to teh bottom of the jack plate that helps getting on plane without sinking the motor