[CT_V-20]

The setup is great running. It's when you either come off plane or when you're drifting in a stern sea with the motor down, or even sitting at anchor with the motor down and a wake comes from the stern. If the motor's trimmed up like in the pictures it stays plenty high and dry. There's nothing to do about it because the hull is going to rock the way it wants to rock regardless of any floatation in the bracket. And the motor is sitting out there on the end of a lever with no say on where it is going since it represents less than 15% of the weight of the rig. I'm not too worried since brackets have been around for a while, so outboards have been getting dunked for a while too I imagine. And it's not like the whole thing goes underwater, it's just the bottom of the cowl. Plus, it's a carbed Johnson... it'll start.