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Strange how you mentioned the sea saw effect. I was just shooting the breeze yesurday hanging out at the boat yard talking about how I like to have a bracket and one guy said, with a bracket you get a sea saw effect. Hmmm, also stated how a bracket grabs air ??.
I still do prefer brackets. 3K is way to much. New/used motors, cost of bracket is gonna kill ya, plus redoing the transom. I'd wait until the last minute before he has to move out of the country and offer a thousand bucks and go from there. Post pics. of the boat, motors and transom if you can.