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Thanks Spare, and the rest of you all.

When the 5 ft of water came through Marathon and over my dock, most of everything I had went in the canal or just vanished. The rest was salted, even hand tools are worthless after a dunking like we had.
I road it out on my Whitby sail boat. The New Hope got banged up a bit, but made it through the storm fine.
It has taken 9 months to get Emergency rebuilding permits from the Army Corp, (Trump has not got to that part of the swamp yet) but now we are just waiting on the barge to come and put some more pilings in.
So it has taken a long time to get this far.

The old 140 was 20 inch shaft, the new one is 25 and came with a jacking plate. It is also left hand. The boat will now have hyd steering.
I'll be cutting the new floor hatches from a piece of plastic.
She will not look pretty, but never did.
Pretty does not last here in the sun and wear we/I put on a boat. The old motor had 4000 hours on it, and still ran fine.
This new 140 is a year older with less than 500 hr, it should see me through till I am too old.

Thanks for the support, it helps.
I will try to post some pictures as it comes together.