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
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 6:23 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 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.BoatDiddly.com ~~~~_/)~~~~~~~~~~~~(\_~~~~ ~~~~~ (\_~~~~ ========================================= 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. ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
