Inside the Offshore Bracket: How Regulator Engineering Delivers a Better Ride

By Team Regulator/ November 17, 2025

Hidden below the waterline, Regulator’s offshore bracket is doing the heavy lifting to give you more performance, more comfort and more room to play.

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Discover what sets a Regulator apart before you even leave the dock. In this blog and video, we break down the advantages of our offshore bracket design—how it boosts performance, opens up space and access at the transom, and helps deliver a quieter, more comfortable ride. See how smart engineering beneath your feet translates to better days on the water.

Why We Use the Bracket on Regulators

The bracket is one of the key features that makes a Regulator ride the way it does — it’s about balance, leverage and eﬃciency.

The bracket acts like a lever — it pushes the engine(s) farther from the boat’s center of gravity, giving them more lifting power or leverage. That’s why a Regulator can be heavier, stronger and safer oﬀshore, yet still run like a high-performance boat.

Purpose of the Bracket: We use the bracket to optimize the engine’s position for performance, balance and efficiency. It allows the boat to plane correctly, improve fuel economy, and maintain stability in different conditions.

Why Not Molded Fiberglass: A molded transom limits flexibility in fine-tuning the ride. The bracket allows precise engine placement for maximum offshore stability, which is what Regulator is known for. It’s one of the reasons our boats ride so smoothly even in big water.

The Lever Eﬀect: Think of the bracket like a lever. By pushing the engines farther away from the boat’s center of gravity, the motors gain more leverage to lift and drive the hull. This is why our boats can be heavier – yet still perform with incredible speed, eﬃciency and stability. The bracket gives the engines more ‘torque’ against the hull, the same way a longer wrench makes a tough job easier.

Safety and Performance: With a bracket, the prop sits in the right position to avoid ventilation/cavitation, improve acceleration, and maintain a predictable ride. It’s a big part of why Regulators are trusted oﬀshore — you get weight for strength, as well as performance, without compromise.

Bilge Access: A bracket allows for better and easier bilge access. By moving the engines farther aft, we can give you a cleaner, more organized and accessible bilge area, which means easier service, inspections, and peace of mind oﬀshore.

Added Length: The bracket adds around 3 feet to the overall length of the boat. That means more waterline, more space, and a ride that feels like a bigger boat — without giving up balance or handling.

Note: The bracket is used on Regulator offshore models only

Why Does a Regulator Ride so Well?

Regulator center console boats are renowned for their smooth, predictable ride, and a big part of that comes down to the meticulous engineering behind every boat. Each component is crafted to precise weight and size specifications, ensuring peak performance on the water. Discover more here.

“The hull and structural integrity that set the bar remain the same today as they were on the first Regulator 26," said Tim Ford. Take a look at how Regulator has set the bar since the beginning in this article by Tim.

Read the video transcript here:

Let me tell you a little bit about the bracket here on your Regulator. It gives you three distinct advantages.

Number one is performance.
Number two is it gives you the ability to get in and out of the water and the space you have on the back of the boat.
And number three is it makes the boat a little bit quieter because now you have the full transom to protect you from the sound and allow it to be working.

But, let's talk about performance. If you'll notice, the bracket is at the same dead rise as the boat, but it sits up about four to six inches higher than the boat, because when the boat goes through the water it creates a hole, and as the boat continues forward that hole fills back up when you go past it. Engineers have figured out that if we offset for about 36 inches with this bracket, this water fills back up in the hole, and if you'll notice, if you watch a bracket out of the water, the bracket comes up at an angle. This allows us to mount our engines about two inches higher than most of our competitors would be. That higher engine gives less drag, and that's one of your performance advantages there.

If you'll notice the Regulator when it's sitting still in the water or going slow, idling around, the bracket touches the water. It adds flotation and lifts the back of the boat. But as soon as you get on plane, if you see a photo and you're behind the Regulator for us up and running, you'll notice the bracket doesn't touch the water. That buys you over three feet of clean water to that prop, so the clean water to the prop and the fact that the motors are mounted higher, will make the boat perform better.

Think about this. Archimedes taught us, “Give me a lever long enough and I'll move the world.” It's the same thing in boating. The further the propeller is—your force of torque—from the center of gravity, the better performance you'll get out of the boat. The bracket on a Regulator naturally creates that distance, giving you better performance.

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