Those boats that Roy did that on had holes drilled in the bows like we did your spinn pole John and the regluar tangs were still in place. Since you brought that up, the converted 6.0 I saw in Ventura (franken boat) had the tangs just behind the front of the decklid. This boat was a 5.8 that was converted to a 6.0. The normal production 6.0 has the tangs just ahead of the decklid.