SHETLAND OWNERS ASSOCIATION

Letten 911
Which side is your helm on please. Sorry could not reply individually thks Jack

Letten 911
Which side is your helm on please. Sorry could not reply individually thks Jack

Thanks for that. Excuse my ignorance but what do you refer to as plating ?

Thanks Clive for responding. We will keep trying to find this out because I know there is a variation here. If you learn anything else apertaining to my question would you mind dropping us a line. We have seen the shetlands with port side helm and starboard.

Hi everyone
We have a 535 shetland that we are restoring. The steering on our boat is on the port side. We have upgraded the engine to a 75 mercury two stroke. We have read that sometimes the engine needs to be offset on the transom? and that there needs to be a certain pitch for performance. The ...

Thanks for replying. I know what you mean about the transom. We came across this on the 535 . Have dug it out, replaced it with marine ply two pieces epoxied together and fibreglassed. Mixed more epoxy and hardener poured it all down into the transom bad parts.Then fb glassed the top of the new wood ...

Hi we are looking at buying a 75 mercury for our 535. We currently have a 40 Mariner. The control box is on the port side to operate the engine. The 75 mercury that control box is for the starboard side. How can we make the switch to keep the control on the port side? Does anyone know. Please advise ...

Hi
Please can you tell me a bit about the engine is it 2 stroke 4 stroke long shaft short shaft and price thank you ! Jack

Thanks for the update. Ours might be ok

We have a shetland 535 doing her up. It had a Mariner 40 2 stoke on it. But might have chance to but a Mercury 75 2 stoke electric start tilt and trim Long shaft.
Will this over power the boat would it be too heavy for the boat and is a long shaft not the best. Have to make a decission soon on this ...