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The 24 gallon plastic tank is a Tempo permanent tank. I bought it from Eastern Marine. Cost $125. It fits in the live bait well with little modification. As you can see, the fill pipe and vent pipe are above deck. and lead to a second filler and vent in the gunnels. I am casting a cover out of fiberglass to cover the hoses onboard. Since the pipes are sort of under my helmseat, I haven't tripped on them yet.

I looked everywhere for a ready made belly tank to replace my 60 gallon tank. The only ready made belly tank that would fit in the below floor space was a 29 gallon tank. It was a Moeller or a Todd. The reason the larger belly tanks would not fit was the deadrise (angle) of the deep vee hull. The deadrise on the V20 is about 22 degrees and the angle on the ready made belly tanks was about 15 degrees. The larger ready made belly tanks (45, 55 gallon) would extend above the floor which was unacceptable to me. A custom fabricated aluminum 60 gallon tank cost me about $600.

As I said above, I would have rather had disc brakes than drum, but money was an issue. I have found out since then that disc brakes on only one axle is more than enough for my rig. My understanding is that if you replace the 4 wheel drum brakes with 2 wheel disk brakes on a tandom trailer that the disc brakes should be installed on the rear axle. If you install them on the front axle, the braking action will make the trailer very unstable. If I knew that at the time, I would have bought 2 disc brake assm's which would have cost me alittle more than the 4 drum assm's!

I have about 3-4 other ongoing V20 projects at present. They are:

Rod box refurbishment.
Teak refinishing
Stainless steel bimini top frames with ss fittings
Power winch

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