After the disastrous first water test I came home, unhooked the boat in the shop, hooked to the Tin Boat and caught Crappie. Aqua Therapy.
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GoGo Minnows got me grinning again, and also adjusted my attitude. I went 1 over the limit but had just launched in a Buds backyard, was gone 15 minutes, took this picture from the first tree I stopped at and text it to my Bud. Great attitude adjustment!
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I use a Harmonic Balance Puller for lifting Outboards, it centers the weight well for me. Here I unbolted the Jackplate from the Extensions and pulled the Engine back out of the way.
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You can see I had a great seal between the Extensions and the Hull. The silicone was removed by softening it using a professional automotive adhesive remover. I used a plastic scraper and new, sharp razor blades to shave the silicone off.
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Thought I would post a picture of the removal in progress, shaving the silicone. You can not cut straight thru, I rotate the razor blade, patiently working off 1/8in at a time till the skin falls on the floor. This mounting using the highest mounting (lowest hole in engine bracket) puts the propshaft 4-1/2 inches below the pad. Interesting other thing, I didn't expect the amount of increase in trailer tongue weight but just the 4 inches positive (forward in relation to the transom - calculations all start from the transom, in front of the transom is a positive and aft of the transom is a negative number) movement of the engine over doubled the tongue weight. That much influence on tongue weight shows engine weight to hull weight ratio is way up. The hull really lightened up using the Coosa Bluewater 26 and S-Glass.
Note; I don't remember posting earlier in this thread but I did have this engine on my other Blazer VL100 briefly. It would top out at 49mph, didn't break 50 once on the GPS but I had to remove the engine as the other boat is rotten inside so the boat was rolling up too much for comfort. Kinda Spooky watching the old boat hull suffer under the load this Yamaha put on it.