Thank you! Photos are very detailed and it looks like I can manage to do it myself :) Saved to favorites!

Captain_frog, sorry for late reply - had no time for forum recently... If you look for my thread "Motor angle in well" you will see some pictures of the exhaust fitting and the cooling water outlet. I you are interested, I might be able to send some picture of the dual door trap when my bo...

Captain Frog, thank you! Yes, this helps a lot. I'm not going to race, so I'm ready to sacrifice half a knot of speed (in fact, I even don't take the outboard on my current boat out of water, though it is on transom). The main reason (at least now) I want IF is that I need a seaworthy, reliable and ...

If you are interested in this but find it difficult to read it using Google Translate or any other translation', please send me a personal message with your email address and I'll send you a translation of it. Thank you very much, there's no need in translation - the article is absolutely clear and...

In my experience, the for the first the most important thing is to have the right propeller. That's very good idea! I know a lot of people are seeking "faster" propeller, but as speed while motoring is not very important for me I just skipped such discussions. Never thought about more pow...

maja, thank you very much. Your replies are very useful and detailed as usual!

The boat I want to buy really has quite old 8 hp 2 stroke installed in the well... And that's the point - I love how the boat looks like, but I wonder why do most of people move the motor to transom. As for me - I have now smaller sailing boat with 3 hp outboard, but always take another spare 2 hp o...

I'm going to buy an IF-boat and I really like their lines, but most of the boats have outboards on transom. What's so wrong with outboard well? All I've found so far is this thread: http://ifboat.se/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=181&p=732 but there's nothing really critical mentioned... My bigg...