30" set back too much?

[3 Squids]

Originally Posted by charlie_the_tuna

I hung a bracket on a 22 sea ray with a 225 evinrude. if I remember correctly, the setback was 29. it was a bunch of years ago and we had the bracket fabbed because nobody made them back then. everybody said it wouldn't work. it did.

Hell yea. Eff-em. From what I've read a mercruiser 350 and lower unit is close to 700lbs, which is what was in it. So deleting 250-300 lbs off the back would be a good start I guess. The battery trays were aft the fuel tank so I could probably relocate those forward any like I said the tank can also be moved. I was told it mostly depended to on the flotation of the bracket. I can't find much info on it but I'm assuming what goes under the water line would be the amount of flotation? Here's a pic of the bracket in case anyone didn't see it in my other thread.