Dear Poly Flex,

I first came to hear of Poly Flex through a boat building course at Meadowbank TAFE North Sydney. Having

completed the course I set about building a 14' clinker motor/sailor designed by David Payne called Yellowtail.

The design is drawn from traditional pleasure boats that used to be available for hire in many of Australia's

eastern estuaries.

Traditionally these pleasure boat were equipped with a single cylinder "put put" engine bolted to a wooden

frame. This arrangement generated a lot of vibration in the boat and in building mine I wanted to avoid this.

The engine I used is a Blaxland Chapman 3.5hp Pup. At the time I don't think Poly Flex made mounts for such

a small engine so I used the smallest ones available. The result is that there is simply no vibration when the

engine is running. As a bonus the design of the mounts enabled me to very accurately line up the engine with

the drive shaft - a very satisfactory outcome.

Regards

John Eggleshaw