44 PROFESSIONAL BOATBUILDERDETAILS: From the Shows- I usually nd at least one perplexing or downright
mysterious design or rigging example at every boat show I
attend, and this fall’s shows did not disappoint. I was too
ba ed to ask what these elaborate metal brackets were for.
My best guess is that the motor-
mounting height on the hull’s
transom was too high, and that
the well was too shallow to
allow the engines to fully tilt
up, so these stando transom-
riser brackets were necessary.
e red arrow shows the top
motor-bracket mounting bolt,
which attaches directly to the
metal frame, not to a compos-
ite transom surface. Nothing
on the brackets appears to
slide, pivot, or move up and
down, and it’s a xed installa-
tion, all nicely fabricated, fas-
tened, and powder-coated. - On this small in atable I saw a smart solution to
outboard-mounting problems. is composite plate serves
to spread out the mounting bolt loads for the outboard
while also lling the gap produced by the overlap joint
where the hull liner wraps over onto the transom. If the gap
were un lled, the top mounting bolts would probably distort
the transom’s inside skin.
Outboard Attachments
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