Ok Please post as you learn more.
--- In [email protected], Victoria Bayly <offmgr...@...> wrote:
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> We are in the process of the exact same thing. Unfortunately we have had 3
> mechanics tell us the same thing - you need to cut the transom to fit the new
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> --- On Wed, 2/10/10, mujin2000 <mujin2...@...> wrote:
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> From: mujin2000 <mujin2...@...>
> Subject: [IC27A] Replacing the outboard on a 1977 Catalina 27
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 11:35 AM
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