Movin’ Weight 25 Parker Project: Flotation Bracket Worth the Money?! Fishing & Performance Testing!

Join Adam's Mellusi on his 25 Parker for a day of commercial fishing and a meetup with Capt. George LaBonte back at the docks, to put his new Armstrong flotation bracket to the ultimate real-world test! Will the time and money he spent to convert it to an Armstrong engine bracket be worth it? Tune in and find out!
Backstory: Capt. Adam Mellusi, Florida fishing charter guide and the popular KZbin personality behind "Movin Weight Fishing", has been having some serious issues with his boat; from standing in water while at rest, slow times to plane, water splashing on his engines, and more; he's ready to find a fix or move onto another boat. In this four-part series, his 25 Parker undergoes a full transformation, from custom paint and a new rub rail to the final new bracket installation, before finally hitting the water to put it to the test.
Armstrong Brackets: armstrongnauti...
Adam Mellusi (Movin Weight Fishing): @movinweightfishing
Rub Rail - TACO Marine: tacomarine.com
Paint - AWLGRIP: www.awlgrip.co...
Materials Supplier - Fiberglass Florida: fiberglassflor...
Rigging - Palm City Yachts: www.palmcityya...
Bracket Install - Wildfire Marine: / wildfire-marine-llc-10...

[@Rick-fc4ri]

Capt George knows boats and he has great advice on how to improve them to better your needs. Years ago I added a bracket to my 23ft Formula and was amazed the difference it made going from a stern drive to an outboard on a flotation bracket. Our Formula was already a great riding boat but now with the outboard on a flotation bracket it even improved it. Adam would have noticed bigger improvements in performance if he did not already have the engines on a bracket before. Now Adams customers will have more room and feel safer with no water coming in the boat.

[@missionboating]

We’re very proud to have Capt. LaBonte as one of our hosts! He’s the best!

[@JosephLaurencio-e3q]

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[@nathanstephens7758]

Im glad to see the project dream boats come back to youtube Capt. George. The boat guys from Texas all wish we lived in South Florida.

[@missionboating]

We’re going to keep it coming, thanks for tuning in!

[@stevedean418]

Have a Armstrong bracket on a 23cc that was built in 1997 with the bracket on it makes the boat closer to 25-27 especially with the walk through on the back along with the added space I really notice the handling a turn radius at low speeds both forward and reverse

[@cryptojay727]

looks good

[@mikerileyfop]

You say you would never grt another boat with out a bracket...just remeber in a modern CAD desgined boat with a naval architect involved...you shouldnt need a bracket. Im happy that the bracket resovled all your issues. It actually looks great too!!

[@Mike-hb4pc]

Everything looks real nice. However, I can’t tell a couple things. Are you running 4-blade props? If so, I’m going to guess a 3-blade prop will outperform the 4- blade with that new Armstrong bracket. And then you need to demo some different props and see which one performs the best for your needs. I’m going to guess you can improve both your speed and MPG with the new bracket. Oh well, just another video! You do a great job on this kind of stuff. Cheers!

[@missionboating]

Mike, can’t recall at the moment - but a 3-blade will certainly out perform a 4-blade when it comes to certain aspects, like top-end numbers - but with the CG change, one downfall to the bracket may be needing more trim tabs and also a 4-blade to lift the transom when planing and to prevent porpoising. Now, this can be offset by shifting weight forward in the boat, too. But, we agree, testing some other prop options is always a good idea! Biggest note - Adam was already seeing the performance gains of a bracket with his Porta-Bracket, hence the very small change in numbers on plane. Those gains came from simply moving the engine aft. Adam’s gains were mainly at rest. So, his engines were most likely already setup prop wise correctly for this setup. Now, if he had no bracket before, then it would be back to the drawing board completely for prop setup, absolutely! Thank you for the kind words and we aim to keep this kind of content coming!

[@MichaelLillyf10051]

Can you add what the costs were?

[@missionboating]

We’ll work on getting some rough costs!

[@monkeyTim59]

Angle on the bracket looks off

[@missionboating]

We can assure you the angle is dead on :) they actually add some degree to it compared to the transom to provide some more negative tuck to help with planing 👍

[@Jerry-sy8rd]

Nice boat and mod. Can’t think of a bigger waste of money than those stupid underwater led lights🙄.

[@missionboating]

They aren’t that expensive these days and they attract fish at night - great for swordfishing and bottom fishing offshore at night. They do look very amazing in clear water and do attract fish, actually a fine investment if you boat at night!

[@peterk814]

lol wanna be “commercial” fisherman and content creator. Lives at home with mommy and daddy.

[@edgesportfishing]

He's a nice young guy who works very hard at fishing and running a KZbin channel, what difference does it make where he lives?

[@peterk814]

He’s a wanna be fisherman. No skills. He’s commercial one day charter captain the next KZbinr that afternoon. Kid doesn’t know what he is. But he’s certainly not anything more than a recreational fisherman who thinks it’s cool to do commercial fishing. Kid can’t even gaff or cut fish.

[@cryptojay727]

jealous much lol the fact you talking about another man like that shows you are a little beta boy lol or a girl who knows lol

[@shoresharp8349]

​@@peterk814He's a young man making his own way. Why the commercial charter capt hate? He's not at home playing video games all day. His youtube channel helps him get new clients who want to hire him to take them fishing. It's free advertising for his charter business.

[@missionboating]

@@peterk814he’s driven - he’s running multiple gigs, sounds like a ton of work, if you ask us. He also grew up fishing with some of the best fisherman in the industry. We’d say he has some skills. Let’s leave the personal attacks off our page and keep it to talking about boat performance 👍