Re: Trailering with Outboard on Transom

From: Bill Combs (ttursine@earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Feb 09 2000 - 15:26:13 PST


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> on 2/9/00 4:06 PM, Judith Franklin Blumhorst at drjudyb@pacbell.net wrote:

> I believe IM is just being conservative (a good thing, imho). Several of us
> have been using 5 hp 4 strokes for the past year on our older boats with no
> backing plates and with no apparent damage to the transom (yet.) However, I
> plan to add a plywood backing on Redwing, just to be conservative.

Despite brain fade, don't I recall that the construction of the transom has
changed over the years? "Our older boats" have a transom built around a
fairly massive plywood core and, I seem to recall are considerably stouter
than some 90's boats. ?????

Regards,
Bill Combs

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