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20" shaft on a boat that requires a 15"
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<blockquote data-quote="clarkbre" data-source="post: 162380" data-attributes="member: 2634"><p>The drawback would be:</p><p>1) Hitting the bottom of the lake/river/ocean with your skeg due to an extra 5” of motor in the water.</p><p>2) The extra 5” of motor in the water would create excessive drag</p><p>3) The overall performance would suffer with a lower top speed, poor hole-shot, and harder to plain since the cavitation plate would be nowhere near where it needs to be height-wise (within an inch of the bottom of the boat)</p><p></p><p>However, there is a solution and here it is:</p><p></p><p>Build an aluminum transom riser that sandwiches the transom and raises the longshaft motor to the proper height. The performance will improve greatly and you will have more clearance for shallower waters.</p><p></p><p><img src="https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/clarkbre/Lund%20WC16/DSC_0122.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p><img src="https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/clarkbre/Lund%20WC16/DSC_0121.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clarkbre, post: 162380, member: 2634"] The drawback would be: 1) Hitting the bottom of the lake/river/ocean with your skeg due to an extra 5” of motor in the water. 2) The extra 5” of motor in the water would create excessive drag 3) The overall performance would suffer with a lower top speed, poor hole-shot, and harder to plain since the cavitation plate would be nowhere near where it needs to be height-wise (within an inch of the bottom of the boat) However, there is a solution and here it is: Build an aluminum transom riser that sandwiches the transom and raises the longshaft motor to the proper height. The performance will improve greatly and you will have more clearance for shallower waters. [img]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/clarkbre/Lund%20WC16/DSC_0122.jpg[/img] [img]https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v282/clarkbre/Lund%20WC16/DSC_0121.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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