Re: Looking for a Inboard guy

[David Stanton]

You can get creative and modify the throttle linkage back at the carb to limit speed, but if you limit it too much, you may have trouble planeing it off, but your idea of a low pitch prop helps solve that issue. An old school governor on the throttle would give you full power to plane it off, but still limit RPM to a preset number. As for older stern drives not on fiberglass, there are aluminum stern drives out there – Crestliner made several over the years. I’ve never seen a stern drive on a wood boat.

You may want to avoid the old Johnson I/O stern drives. Word is that they refused to pay Mercury royalties to use their patents and as a result had more complex and less desirable outdrives and power tilt and trim mechanisms. The only positive I can think of on the old Johnson drives was they tilted up a full 90 degrees, getting the prop way high out of the water.
Dave