Binkie wrote:
If your motor is a long shaft with tiller steering, you are using a lot more effort to steer the boat than you would if you had a short shaft motor. If that tiller somehow slipped out of your hand at high speed, prepare to get wet, as you will probably dump the boat.

Its not against the law, to use a long shaft motor on a short shaft boat, but it just looks plain stupid.

By the way I have a `87 short shaft 25 Evinrude remote control, with a bad powerhead $250