The biggest thing I noticed was the drag at first. I was able to fix it by raising the talon. When you install it on the trailer figure what looks good and raise it a few more inches from that and you shouldn't have any issues.

we got it all finished last night with the exception of the wiring - here are pics in sort of a step by step order - let me know what you think, we tried to keep them as high as possible and I tried to take a pic that shows where it is sitting depth-wise - sounds like we may not have positioned them tilted forward enough so if you think you can get a feel for how they are sitting from the pics and think they need some tweaking let me know - thanks for all the feedback!

what we started with - 2: 12ft Talons, jack plate brackets, Talon tilt brackets


jack plate pre-install


mounting the first piece of the standard jack plate bracket - here you can see we used the top spacer hole instead of standard slot to get some extra height (the floor jack was just in place as an extra precaution)


second piece of the standard bracket installed on both sides


skipped a head a bit but here we have already installed the tilt brackets to the Talon and are mounting to standard bracket


close up of tilting bracket and Talon installed


shot from the side to give you an idea of how high the Talons sit at the back of the boat


another side shot to show the angle/positioning of the Talons - let me know if you think we need to come forward more


final product (minus wiring) from the back with travel covers on

any suggestions on DFW area places to take it to have hole drilled in fiberglass for wiring?

Just cut a vertical slice in the flex hose close to the boat and use the hole that's already there. When you are done use electrical tape to tape around the flex where you cut and the wires. I did mine this way with zero problems. Very easy to do.

In the second and third picture, you can see where the rub rail comes together. Remove the little 2 inch cover and run your wires thru there and replace the run rail cover.

both of these suggestions make a lot more sense than drilling a hole in our boat thanks!

Very good mounting the bracket higher than just flush with the top of the jack plate.

thanks! would not have known to stay high if not for ya'lls advice

Well done! Make sure you tighten/torque those bolts on the jackplate. The angle looks good, but as others said you can check it out when floating in the water to see if you need to tweak it.