New to the board here. Nice message board. Real informative. I always wanted a Wellcraft V20.
I had been looking on Craigslist and Ebay for awhile. I just didn't feel like driving 500 miles to pick up a boat and have it be a total wreck.
I tried a local paper figuring there wouldn't be anything good in there and saw a '73 V20 with a '84 150hp Mercury on it. Sitting on a Shoreline glav. trailer. Said motor needed work. Drove 2 hours across the state to look at it. Didnt look bad, floors and stringers and transom where solid! Motor even started, but wouldn't rev over 1200 rpm and had gas running out of carbs. Guy said gimme a grand and tow it out of my yard. I grabbed it!
I got home and cleaned carbs out. Ran a few test with meter and found out the stator was bad. So far I am real pleased with my find. Thinking about building one seat box with tackle storage underneath and leave the one helm seat for the captain.
I noticed some of the newer boats have a place for the rod boxes, but my boat does'nt have that wall coming straight down from the inside edge of the gunwale. Hard to explain. In other words, I don't have a thick inside wall to cut out a opening to put in a rod box. I have the two saddle gas tanks there. I guess I have to mount some rod holders in there some how. Here are some crappy camera phone pics: