On Wed, 04 May 2005 00:19:24 -0500, sherwindu
wrote:

The boat was in fact very well prepared for transport. What was I to do with a
100 pound outboard engine, put it in the cockpit or on the deck? If I had put the
engine inside the boat (there was no room anyways for it), or in the cockpit, the
damage would have been a lot worse.

No offense, but leaving a 100 lb motor hanging on a bracket with no
support for a trip of that distance is - well, stupid. No other word
for it.

Later,

Tom

No offense, but leaving a 100 lb motor hanging on a bracket with no
support for a trip of that distance is - well, stupid. No other word
for it.
Another word for it might be.....unfortunate.......
Being a sailor, this guy might not be familiar with all the cracked outboard
brackets that happen when powerboats come back in from offshore and take a
pounding, so he didn't prep for that.
As often as not, I suspect that the bracket cracks are the cumulative result
of metal fatigue, rather than a one-time stress, and an outboard bouncing
along for over a thousand miles might be what pushed the bracket to the
limit. Who knows, it might have been on the verge of cracking when the trip
started.
Unless there is some evidence of the motor being backed into something,
methinks you protest too much.

On Wed, 04 May 2005 13:35:14 GMT, "Floyd in Tampa"
wrote:


No offense, but leaving a 100 lb motor hanging on a bracket with no
support for a trip of that distance is - well, stupid. No other word
for it.
Another word for it might be.....unfortunate.......

Well, that's being charitable - perhaps I was a little harsh. I've
had my share of "oh sh..." over the years. :)

As often as not, I suspect that the bracket cracks are the cumulative result
of metal fatigue, rather than a one-time stress, and an outboard bouncing
along for over a thousand miles might be what pushed the bracket to the
limit.

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Exactly.

Unless there is some evidence of the motor being backed into something,
methinks you protest too much.

Agreed.

Later,

Tom