Live Well question

[bryant]

Hi everyone,
I have been working on my new to me 1973 V20 and wondering how the pluming worked on the live wells. I do not see where the water inlets are for the wells and it seems some of the pluming is missing from the forward well. Can anyone help me out with this? Also is there a site that I can get a good repair manual?

[yodaddy]

I've got a '76 V20, and the fish boxes in the deck are not live wells. Not sure if any V20's came with live wells.

I built a prototype live well in my '83 V20 towards the end of last season but never got it perfected. I'm using 2 pumps, one for fresh water, and the other pump for discharge, and a thru-transom high speed water pickup. The live well works fine when the boat is at rest, but I need to fine tune the high speed pickup.

There are some catalogues in the archives, but no manuals that I am aware of.

Good luck with the V!

[tsubaki]

Yep, fishboxes/floorcoolers that drain into the bilge.
Usually no connecting pipes, just drains to the bottom of the boat and into the bilge.

[Macrenovations]

The 73's came with just the two cooler / storage boxes in the floor, The drain lines are 3/4 in hose that ran to a tee right out side the bilge area and then a single line into the bilge.The stern box was set-up to add a bait well and the center only as a storage area. Been thinking of doing the same thing till I had to replace the stringers and just glassed over one of them and love the looks and function a lot better as far as the fish and bait wells just going to use and convert reg. coolers and use them. Mush easier to keep clean and a little extra seating never hurts. If you do so keep in mind there's no real seal on the covers so water and any other liquids may get into the fish well and contaminant the water. But for the most part the cost would be cheap to do so.

[phatdaddy]

http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo214/gls216/DSCF0489.jpg

bryant, this is a 500gph pump that i put on the transom and ran the hose through the splashwell where the motor controls go and out of the rod boxes on the gunnel. then into a 35 gal plastic tank with a drain back over the splashwell. tsubaki is right on about the floor boxes, not good live wells at all. i put a pvc 45* on the intake so i can "scoop " water on plane without using the pump. if your interested in that type of set up, i can snap some pics of the interior.

[captwalt]

I would be interested in some more pic's. im going to do mine during christmas week and would like all options. Thanks Walt

[bryant]

Thanks to everyone for responding. I guess I just was not paying attention when I bought the boat. Not that it matters I was more interested in the hull than the extras. I will probably do what I have done in the past and use a cooler.

[RABBITFISH]

That looks like a sprinkler system under the boat?

:clap:

[phatdaddy]

i have 3 heads under the keel and 2 on the outside of the wheels of the trailer. i hooked up a solenoid valve and timer and when i back in i turn on the sprinklers for 10 minutes and rinse the trailer & bottom of boat...
next year, im going to install a Salt Away dispenser in line.

[Destroyer]

i have 3 heads under the keel and 2 on the outside of the wheels of the trailer. i hooked up a solenoid valve and timer and when i back in i turn on the sprinklers for 10 minutes and rinse the trailer & bottom of boat...
next year, im going to install a Salt Away dispenser in line.

Damn, that's one of those simple ideas that simply rocks... I gotta make me one of them.. Thanks PhatDaddy!!! :clap::clap:

[phatdaddy]

thanks D, i hate to admit it, but i've been in the irrigation business since 76 and i just put this together 2 years ago...

[FL Bill]

Love the idea of a trailer rinse set up.

[RABBITFISH]

Just noticed the difference in dates on the posts!!!:you: