Outboard bracket Hi Dave- Let me know what Catalina Direct says, if anything.
I am thinking about this mount for a Tohatsu 9.8..Ron
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From: David Shugarts<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 5:23 AM
Subject: catalina27-talk: Outboard bracket
Hi, All--
There is a new wrinkle in my quest for an outboard motor and bracket. See
below.
--Dave Shugarts
C-27 #4866 Cahoots (1981)
SR, A4, Tiller, Dinette
Newtown (Housatonic River), CT
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Dear Catalina Direct:
I have just recently purchased your Outboard Motor Mount, Four Spring,
Product # Z2275. I called before I bought it, and your salesman very
confidently told me that it has a vertical travel of 17 inches. I was very,
very impressed by this, since practically every other bracket of the same kind
on the market has a travel of about 11 to 13 inches.
Well, yesterday I mounted the bracket on a wall for the first time to check
the travel, and there is NO WAY it is 17 inches. I was not able to get it to
the full-down notch without straining, but the mostly-down notch is about
11-1/4 inches. I would guess the full-down is 13 inches. Please go out and
measure it for yourself.
It is too late for me to do anything but go ahead and use this bracket, and I
do very much admire the construction of it, especially the benefit of the hefty
springs. But I would suggest that you let everyone know the ACTUAL travel of
the bracket before purchase, and it would be helpful if you had a diagram that
would illustrate this, so that the owner has some guidance in positioning it on
his or her boat.
