What do you guys think of a Grady 24 ft

[sailboat]

-The bracket on the back of a boat has some goods and some bads.
--Good; engine can sit higher, noise is out of cockpit.
--bad ; hard to back up (40% of reverse thrust hits transom of boat), weight and thrust are way aft of center of effort, tilt and trim are critical and must be manipulated in turns, getting up on plane, etc.
---Most all the builders, including Grady White have redesigned the back of their boats to do away with the brackets. The amount of stress placed on the stern of the boat caused enough problems that brackets are becoming history except on those manufactures without the money to upgrade designs (Parker, etc).
-I've owned three boats with brackets and glad to get away from them.