[quote=biglakesailor]To widen your choices for a lightweight motor look also for motors under the names Tanaka, Sears Gamefisher and there is another name for the same motors but it slips my mind right now. These are all the same motors manufactured in Japan by Tanaka with different labels. They may well be the same motors as the cruise n carry as they sure look the same and are the same horsepowers at 1.2 and 2.7 and air cooled and 12 and 17lbs respectively. I bought a 1.2hp Gamefisher for my Pacific cat but have yet to get around to installing it. Being air cooled they are rather noisy, like a weed wacker but hard to beat the weight, much lighter than the Honda air cooled 2hp. We are looking at 2 possible mounting options. one is to glass in a fiberglass tube through the hull side just behind the aft beam and slid in an aluminum tube with a mounting pad welded to it. to raise the motor from the water we would not use the tilting mount but rather just rotate the tube and pin it. The other option is to mount the motor in the center in a similar manner with the aluminum tube facing fore and aft and the motor would just rotate and store acrossways. the only problem may be the mainsheet or tiller extension catching on it but I think that's just a management issue. On the P cat of course the aft crossbeam is about 4ft in from the transoms so the weight there is less of an issue, it is also a solid deck cat so drier. We installed a Mama bob this year so even if we were to manage to capsize it the motor would not get wet in either location. Incidently we already have a crossbeam at the bow and I plan on installing a net forward someday, I loved it on the G cat I used to sail.
Steve.[/quote]
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