as long as you are aware of the water could wash over you will be fine plenty of people are running 15" motors on them i was worried about mine as well but i have not had any problems
I would have mounted it to the jackplate as long as clearance was good just so i was not drilling more holes below water line,, but you should be fine,,
im going to go there this summer for sure but i normally run the chickahominy river in New Kent im also going to the Rappahannock this year,, im in Richmond Va come on down to the chick if you want a change they have a few campgrounds around there
i had the same experience with my xb2003 no lip this is what i discovered for me, when i was 1/4 below the boat was not getting on the pad and my water pressure was almost 30 pounds so i have talked to a few people that have run these boats with no lip at all, was told to run 1 3/8 above pad as...