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New Trailerboat
Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:15:17 -0400, hk wrote: Short Wave Sportfishing wrote: On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:10:23 -0400, hk wrote: Eisboch wrote: "Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message ... Although I do like the way they extended the hull through to the bracket - that's pretty interesting. They had to. I was studying that also. It needs those massive extensions to the main stringers to support the weight of those engines. The bracket is exactly the same design as the one I had on my 25-foot Parker, just larger. The bracket is designed and built that way to add buoyancy at the stern when the boat is at rest. What you are seeing is NOT a bracket for the outboards resting on a hull extension, but, in fact, the bracket itself. It is through-bolted to the transom with hefty stainless steel bolts about every inch and a half along the flat portion. At least it was on my Parker. Therefore, there are no "massive extensions to the main stringers to support the weight of the engines." It could be, but I'd suspect that Eisboch is right - it almost has to be attached directly to the stringers. There's a lot of leverage on that stern for it not to be supported by the hull stringers. There is no real way to tell from the images, but I do like the concept of extending the hull form to the bracket. One of the complaints I've always had about outboard brackets similar to the ones on the Vector series Hydra-Sports is that they tend to bury the engine on take off and coming off plane. Even playing with the trim doesn't help any. Extra buoyancy under the bracket is a good thing - interesting application. There are several manufacturers of brackets with flotation chambers. Parker uses two of them that I know of to produce its custom designs. When I talked to Robin, she said Parker didn't do custom designs and wouldn't do one even with a bonus. When did that change? crickets |
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