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Thats great!!!! But who is gil??

Are you going to do it your self? I did the whole job my self. Its not all that bad if you have the time and some no how.
 
i just ordered my bracket from gil . they seem real nice over there. it has a 29" setback , thats all they make in a single. ill let you know how she goes. still need a motor.
 
I AM DOING THE PROJECT MYSELF MINUS THE GLASS WORK. I HIRED A PROFESSIONAL TO CLOSE THE HOLE AND RECREATE A FLUSH DECK IN THE STERN. HE IS CHARGING ME $1500. FOR ALL THE NECESSARY GLASS WORK TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN OUTBOARD BOAT. THE BRACKET COST ME $965. I HOPE THIS ALL WORKS OUT!!
 
Gildrive I is the one that I have MJ. You can also add the swim platform brackets to the sides and it'll look like your Stainless Marine bracket.
 
Looks good! I like the swim platform for the extra support. I did the glass work myself and I need all the support I can get!

But since you are having it done by a professional see if he can add to the transom to make it supper strong!! You will need it! I just don't trust 500 pounds on the back of the transom that was not made to do it.

I have a transom saver that I made up for support when trailing! CB, say's if it ever falls off I can take out a 4 lane highway with it!! :o
 
That transom saver is like 7 feet long, 2" galvanized steel square stock with heavy duty ends welded to it to support the lower unit. ;D
God, I'd hate to see that thing coming at me on the highway. ;D
 
The load of the engine weight is cantilevered off the transom, producing especially acute bending forces on the transom when the boat is bouncing down the highway on a trailer. With long setbacks, it may not be feasible to support the lower unit(s) of the engine(s) with an auxillary load bar, as is often done when trailering an engine in the tilted-up position. Stress on the transom from the large unsupported engine weight can be considerable.
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They haven't seen MJ's contraption. :o ;D
 
That was a good read!

See CB, I was right I need that transom saver!!  ;D  As ugly as it is and the extra 2 min to put it on is Worth it to me!

No one ever told me of this when I did it. But having a 30 year old transom, and my glass work just told me I needed something!
I will have to see if I can get a pic of it and post it!!

I smell a pattern coming on!!  ;D

No laughing allowed!!
 
I think I smell a business opportunity. You need to market that thing! ;D
Have one made out of aluminum to lighten it up a bit. ;)
 
BS - VERY INTERESTING ARTICLE. :)
A must read for anyone contemplating going the bracket route.

I guess there isn't any article like this from Wellcraft, instead of Boston Whaler, or you would have already posted it. I sure would like to hear from them about the V21's molded bracket design.
 
Wheras Gil got right back to me, I have not yet heard a peep from Armstrong  >:(. Good luck Victore.

That was a great article, but..... "The engine thrust will be applied with a longer moment arm to the boat's center of lateral resistance and the boat's center of gravity, producing greater leverage of the engine thrust on both the boat's course and the boat's trim." ....huh? Can anybody dumb this down for me?
 
I can only talk of my boat, I am no engineer, and I did the work my self.
Did I get lucky?? Did I do something different??  All I have to say is that the boat is great in the turns, at wot, and in heavy seas, It tracks straight as a arrow!!

I love and hope you have as good as luck as I have had!!

p.s. I will show you how to make a super transom saver if you want!!
 
CT - I just look at the pictures . . . Seriously I have no idea what that guys is talking about . . . . there. I've seen MJ's boat in action and I was really impressed . . . it looks like a big stretch cadillac that just eats up waves.

You'll be fine with the braket w/o any extra transom saver contraptions. Bolt it on and go . . . you'll probably want trim tabs too.


SK - This is the best bracket read I come across so far . . . unfortunatly continouswave is all BW stuff. The short wellcraft bracket on the v21 is a very nice.
 
BS - Like the article said, the molded bracket on the BW added greatly to the production cost. On the v21, also, it is a modification that required much additional skilled carpentry and glasswork on a boat by boat basis. The v21's molded bracket, like the BW molded bracket, is added to the boat after coming out of the original mold. The extra cost to produce the molded bracket, probably, put production of the v21/20 to death, as wellcraft could not or would not go back to the old style transomm due to marketing forces.

When my molded bracket transom rots ( not too soon, I hope), I will probably just chop it off rather than restore it. I think I would raise the transom along the original lines to accomodate a 30 inch shaft that should by then be available in a 150 hp motor. I would leave the well so that the motor could be tilted with a bracket setback at about 12 inches, if I even wanted to keep a bracket. Bracket or not I would have an "almost full transom". Actually, it would be more "full" than my current hull.

CT, All the author is saying is what I called see-saw physics in one of my former posts. Extend the weight of the motor 30 inches back and you make the bow rise (trim). When he is talking about thrust and course, he is just saying that putting the motor farther back increases the steering or turning force on the boat (the same see-saw, just turned sideways).
 
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