Jeff,
I installed the Garelick #71091 which was listed in the WEST catalog for
$399, but I checked into it online last fall and got it for under $300.
I did glass in my old cutout using the filler and then glassing in on the
inside. I actually hired a local who works independently to do this part of
the project. He laid up multiple layers of ply in the inside using plenty of
glass mat.
My OB is the 9.9 Merc, Big foot.. a real brute, but quiet and smooth, as I
mentioned in a earlier note it weighs in at 125 lbs. The Garelick allows me
to get it up out of the water, just the skeg wet, or I can tilt it and get her
completely out of thewater. I also ahd a stainless steel backing plate made
to help stiffen the whole structure. Real happy so far, racing starts in 2
weeks we'll see then.
Dave Techlin
GUSTY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave,
I was just going to order the same mount from Catalina Direct this
morning. I spoke with them about this and they said the tech people are not in
until tomorrow. Hopefully the mount you received was the wrong one, and that
the correct one has the 17" travel. I plan on replacing my Garelick 71090
(9.5" travel) with one that I can get my Mercury 9.9 out of the water w/o
tilting it. I have a 1988 C-27 with outboard and no cutout. The previous owner
changed to the Garelick and mounted in the center of the transom. The boat
originally had the mount on the port side.
The 2 other mounts I have been looking at are the
http://www.breezeindustries.com/marine.htm
and the
http://jrmarineproducts.com/
Breeze Industries is no longer producing them and the JR Marine Products
is having an "issue with a supplier of a critical component". I like the idea
of the power lift, however the only other one is a Garelick and that sells for
almost $1800.00.
Jeff Serene
1988 C-27
"Matthew Lauren II"
Phoenix, AZ
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Subject: catalina27-talk: Outboard bracket
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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
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.BoatDiddly.com
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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.
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