Is there any possiblity of mounting the outboard amidships?

For example, the daggerboard box could incorporate a wider top section
that, when lifted out, would allow the motor shaft to be tilted down.

If there were a cable on the throttle, one could even sit aft and use
the tiller.

Robert Martin

It probably has something to do with
the location of the source of power, the sail being amidships and the
propellor being well aft.