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Talk to Sam. There is a newer revises plan for the BBIII that gives you the option. When I downloaded them from their website I was sent the old ones. I don't know if they have fixed that or not.
 
Also, have you run an outboard at all or just the mud motor?
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Hi Hayes, my boat is the stock width at the transom-the main thing that I changed was removing the rocker from the rear half of the boat along with moving the transom back. It was pretty easy to do, I just kept the keel line straight and added a bit of height at the top of the side panels to maintain the sheer line.

I mainly ran the mud motor, I did throw a friend's outboard on it to try it out and it seemed to run well-it jumped on plane really quickly and tracked and turned great. It was only a 20hp though so it was probably a good bit lighter than a 30 or 40hp motor.

Here is a photo of the transom on the water with the longtail on it-as you can see the low point of the keel is only 2 or 3 inches underwater, and the waterline on the sides is basically even with the chine. I don't think that hanging an outboard off the transom is going to affect the draft all that much.

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Cody, How did you go about taking the rocker out? I have been looking into it and it seems much more difficult than I originally thought.
 
Taking the rocker out of the BB3 is relatively easy-there is a point at the midsection of the hull on the keel line where the dimension on the plans is 1 5/8", that runs up to 1 7/8" at the transom. Simply keep that line at 1 5/8" all the way to the transom and you won't have any rocker in the keel line. To compensate for the slight change in side height, I kept the chine line the same but added height to the sheer at the deck to keep the original lines of the hull intact-hopefully that all made sense!

Messing with hull dimensions on a stitch and glue boat can be tricky-the changes you make don't end up being linear so it's a bit of a trial and error process.
 
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