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Message: <blockquote data-quote="handyandy" data-source="post: 431988" data-attributes="member: 18942"><p>Before you go through all the trouble of welding up the tunnel I'd keep messing around with motor height/weight distribution before you go through all that work. I can understand wanting to get rid of a tunnel, to me, and to you as well the cons of a tunnel outweigh the pro's. This is more so on flat bottoms it seems like. Wooldridge and few other of the northwestern boat builders seem to have the tunnels for outboard jets down pretty well, but their boats with them aren't a flat bottom like yours and are specifically designed for a tunnel. With that said if it were me I'd mess around with weight distribution more before I went through all the work of welding up the tunnel. The bags of cement or some other heavy weight that's easy to move around works well for experimenting before you actually move something like the batteries. I suspect you need more weight up front being you use to have heavy flooring throughout the boat that is gone now that helped weigh the front down apparently just right since you got 36 out of it before.</p></blockquote><p></p>