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Originally Posted by NW_Wellcraft90

Pretty! How fast does your Merc push you? On flat glass we've taken ours to 49 according to the dash
Thank you for the welcome

Is that 200 mounted to a bracket? Factory?

Dash mounted speedometers are notoriously inaccurate. Use a GPS for a much more accurate reading. I've hit 53 in the Hackensack River on a flat day, but I was going downstream at the time so I don't know how fast the current was. My COG was 53 but my COW was probably less. (It's a fairly slow moving river though).

The boat in the pictures is my V21. They (Wellcraft) put a "bubble" on the stern of the boat to hang the engine from. It's not a bracket, it's actually a factory made part of the transom. That's how they get to call the boat a V21 instead of a V20. Kind of like modern day boats with "Mediterranean" swim platforms molded in. The makers add 2 feet of swim platform molded in and get to call a 19 foot boat a 21 footer.