Any Great Minds Out There?

[dgax65]

Originally Posted by kareem korn

Doug, that's a good idea with the outboard on the back. I like it. I'm not worried about ruining a kayak. I would still like to make it fit around the center hatch of my mini-x.

I'm even thinking on putting on a oldschool longboard.

I would not install a gas motor inside a hull unless it could be ventilated. Where is the exhaust on that thing? You would also have to rig an exhaust line overboard. How hot does it run?

The big concern with mounting it in the hull is sealing the drive shaft. That dive shaft is a couple inches wide. It looks wider than the flat width of the keel. Since the bolt flange on the drive is even wider, you would have to make some sort of adapter to fit the drive to the keel. With a fixed drive shaft length, that would require the motor to be way down inside the hull. Remember that you will also have to support the motor inside the hull so it doesn't shift and break the hull seal. Mounting it inside the hull also means that you are always going to have a big-ass drive sticking out of the bottom of the hull. It probably wouldn't be wise to rest it on the drive unit, but what is the alternative? If you flip it over you could have gas leaking out of the tank.

Given the existing design of the drive, I can't really think of how it could be effectively mounted in the hull. Maybe a "great mind" could figure it out, but I can't.