What is this bracket?-exhaust housing 1951 25 hp Evinrude

[outboardnut]

oldlure- how did u find out?

[MIKE SIMS]

Found this recently added ad in the Fiberglassics library

[DAN UMBARGER]

I’m surprised that the old motors had enough power to keep the skiers from pulling the motors up out of the water.

[frankr]

DAN UMBARGER wrote:

I’m surprised that the old motors had enough power to keep the skiers from pulling the motors up out of the water.

I suppose some wild skier antics MIGHT be able to do that, but not likely. Yes he sometimes can make the propeller cavitate by pulling at a sideways angle. The motor/propeller is pulling the skier, not skier pulling the motor. Hey, I learned to ski behind a 10hp Johnson. Of course I weighed about 50 pounds back then.

[sydinnj]

I have the Merc one somewhere. Got it a few years ago. As for pulling skiers up I remember as a young kid we would pull mom up on skies with our 15hp Gale

[outbdnut2]

To add to the pulling skiers thing (but not with that bracket), motors back then had a lot more low end torque than the next generation (late 1970s/1980s) motors of similar HP, and boats were lighter then too (except for some fiberglass models). When I was 12 years old, I used to ski double with a friend behind my neighbor’s 1958 18 Johnson on a decked Alumacraft model F ( boat rated for 16 HP). As a teen, I routinely pulled 3 teenage girls on skis at the same time behind a 1960 40 HP Johnson running on a 14′ Crestliner aluminum boat rated for 60 HP max. Photo below of me at age 16 in that boat. The motors used a bit more gas than later ones, and needed a bit more TLC, but performance for pullin’ skiers up was great!
Dave

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