I am certainly a newb to displacement boats also. a 25" shaft is the recommended size for the boat, so i am sure it will be fine. At the speeds it will see the extra drag of the leg/prop hanging down shouldn't be a factor. But it will be interesting to see what happens when i'm bobbing around in some 3-4' seas. lol.cracked_ribs wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:41 pm I'm not very knowledgeable about displacement boats but do you expect any issues with motor height?
On my big boat I have a kicker that I run about that deep and it never loses grip on the water no matter how rough it gets, but that's a 5000 lb planing boat and moving it at 4 knots is all I could ever hope for from a 9.9 kicker. I don't really have a sense of ideal prop height on a boat like that although one thing's for sure...you will never bark that prop, unless your travel plans include Niagara Falls, I guess.
Anyway looking good! Bet you're itching to get her on the water.
And yes, itching is an understatement.