Hello Everyone,
I recently inherited 3 boats. All are vintage Starcrafts: 1x 22' Islander (I sold her for 500.00), 16' (sold her for 500.00) and finally an 18' that I'm going to keep and restore. These were my dad's collection and there is a lot of story behind each one.
I'll be posting pics of the 18' soon. But I have a thought that I want to throw out to the forum. The 18' had a 70's 65hp Mercury on it. Dad was restoring the motor when he passed but unknown to any of us we threw out the boxes containing all the loose parts and bolts. I later sold the 65hp for parts and found a 90hp 4 stroke 1998 Honda. It might be a little heavy but I'll be restoring the transom anyway.
My thought is to have dadmarine.com fabricate an outboard transom bracket to hold the Honda and a kicker. Their bracket will be bolted to the restored transom on the 18' Starcraft. There are some pluses to integrating the transom bracket.... and some minuses, too.
Does anybody have any direct experience mounting a transom bracket to an old 18' aluminum starcraft. I've seen i few discussions on 22' Islanders but I don't recall reading here of anybody putting it on shorter boats.
Ranger
I recently inherited 3 boats. All are vintage Starcrafts: 1x 22' Islander (I sold her for 500.00), 16' (sold her for 500.00) and finally an 18' that I'm going to keep and restore. These were my dad's collection and there is a lot of story behind each one.
I'll be posting pics of the 18' soon. But I have a thought that I want to throw out to the forum. The 18' had a 70's 65hp Mercury on it. Dad was restoring the motor when he passed but unknown to any of us we threw out the boxes containing all the loose parts and bolts. I later sold the 65hp for parts and found a 90hp 4 stroke 1998 Honda. It might be a little heavy but I'll be restoring the transom anyway.
My thought is to have dadmarine.com fabricate an outboard transom bracket to hold the Honda and a kicker. Their bracket will be bolted to the restored transom on the 18' Starcraft. There are some pluses to integrating the transom bracket.... and some minuses, too.
Does anybody have any direct experience mounting a transom bracket to an old 18' aluminum starcraft. I've seen i few discussions on 22' Islanders but I don't recall reading here of anybody putting it on shorter boats.
Ranger
