
1) The boat is blocked up level according to the 2' level across the beds, and again across the bridge-deck.
2) The aluminum tube is straight as an arrow and light as a feather. With a few wraps of tape near center, it's very snug in the cutless bearing. And, there is just as much tube outside the boat as in, so it's balancing along the cutless, not leaning downward inside the boat. There is no play in the tube.
3) Hung from above, the plumbline is just touching the top center of the tube. The plumbline is 24" long, and the tube is 2" above the template.
4) The plumbline is actually hung from the center of the light bulb that is throwing the shadow below the tube, in fact, the plumbline located the position of the bulb 'till the pointer just touched the tube at its highest point.
Now the question; looking at the shadow of the tube, and the centerline of my motor footprint template, is the motor going to center up on the shaft port & starboard? We're talking port /starboard only here, not up/down.
John Ring
CD28 Tantalus :)