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Hello Brad and welcome! Normally the cavitation plate will be 1/2 to 3/4″ below the bottom of the boat. Now racers will tell you level with the bottom is where you need to be. It all depends on you application. In one of your pictures it shows a couple shims between the transom clamps and the motor. Some one must have been experimenting. The higher the motor is the less drag and the faster you will go usually!!! That propeller if it catches air it will spin freely and make a noise the boaters call cavitation or slipping. It all depends on your boat and bottom configuration. So about all I can tell you is you will have to experiment. Your motor looks like it is a little long or deep in the water. Be careful with to many shims on the top. You do not want that motor jumping off!
dale
get’em wet…don’t let’em set