Franco, just might take ya up on the sail thing next season, Ft. Pierce is a good place, probably better than what we have up here for them.

Scatter'd reports, but sails are in off the NC coast Wrightsville/Topsail area from 10 to 35 miles out, just have to troll'm up and be in the right area.

Thanx for the lil Cap'n comment... yup,, he's gonna be #2. My 4 yr old just loves to fish now, once we did the over-nighter thing at Jordan lake this past month and the Fla vacation (his first offshore trip -- 15 miles) he's all into it now... He loves the mahi colors, thinks they're the neatest things... wont touch em once he found out they got teeth!! ha ha ha ha..... Tell ya what though, he's got the ticket on them hard-tails (blue runners), he sure filled up the livewell good with them... I'm just amazed how fast kids catch on and I guess I'm lucky in that he's alot of fun on the boat with me.

Sails... we'll keep in touch on a future date for that for sure!

Nice ride ya got there, bet it'd look real good bloodied up with some tuna or dorado on the deck!! ;) I'll apologize, but thru ya'all I'm bein educated on the V-20's, my bet is they're a great coastal fishin boat... has anyone put a hard/soft top (other than bimini) on one (would love to see pix)?? Just curious... I dig the deck cut outs for access to the tank and the deck appears to have ample fightin room.. bet it would make a good groupa boat and great to see the pride in ownership.

Question, if ya pull the I/O, will you bracket hang the OB or stand-off type? Wonder how Wellcraft put the transoms together. If it's like mine, should be able to handle alot. Either way, I'd think you'd easily be able to run 20 and fish the east side of the stream... very doable. Alot of guys in this neck of the woods do the I/O to OB conversions as well, they get into the older I/O boats and slap on the latest O/B tech type motors. Place out by Harker's Island does alot of conversions. My bud Todd was lookin to buy a old Bertram and put twin 300 HPDI's on it... I told him he was crazy and it wasnt designed for it, but after him "sellin" the fine points on it... I'm thinkin' maybe he aint all that crazy after all,,, especially the way boats are priced now days. I'd never have the balls to take on that kind of challenge or project.

Hey Phester, fly on down brother, we'll take ya fishin! ;)