I like bracketed boats, you will too captwalt. The potential problem is having a outboard hanging on the bracket with a lot of setback and causing the boat to be stern heavy. A modern 150 4-stroke weights in about the same as the older 2-stroke 250's. I like the power of the 250EFI on mine but at 500 lbs with 30" of setback it is not the most practical. The boat was much better balanced with the old 2.4 liter 200 at about 375 lbs. Speed is why I chose to mount the 250 on my center console and it still ain't fast enough. Twins would be sweet but the weight distribution would be all messed up on the bracket.
Just one more thought, filling any normally dry part of the boat with foam does not make the vessel any more bouyant under normal circumstances because you have not changed the displacement. In fact it will decrease the bouyancy by the weight of the foam. However, if you start to take on water, the foam will help by preventing water from filling the areas where the foam was installed and should prevent the boat from sinking to the bottom.(Floatation Foam) Kinda like a empty water bottle with the lid on is very bouyant. Take the lid off and you can make it sink to the bottom. Fill it with foam lid on or off and it will still float.
Get that thing down to FL and take the wraps off. We need boat porn, ie. lots of pictures.
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