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Originally Posted by phatdaddy

I had a 21 hydra-sport (kevlar) w a 235 evinrude and it would fly!!! *I don't know about 3 to 4 ft, but it took rough water very well. *It was also the driest CC I have ever been on. *It would throw the spray 40 ft away and flat. *With the 235, I was going so fast the spray never hit you. *The reason I replaced it with the V-20 was the cuddy, needed room for baby stuff. *The only real problems I had was the "V" was too much. *I was doing a lot of diving then and when you sat on the gunnell with a set of gear on, you would almost dip the side under water. *Mine also had no splashwell and a low transom. *I also felt the sides in the rear were a little to low for bottom fishing. *It is a great riding hull.

My 20' HYDRA-SPORT has the high sides and I have a 250HP YAMAHA to go on it when I redo the transom. My buddy who convinced me to get the HYDRA-S{PORT has an 86DC 20' with a 225HP JOHNSON and that is the one I took on the rough water in. But I now have a significant other that wants to go boatin with me, so I think the V-20 will prevail. And I don't beat myself up on the water like I used to either(broke to many boats in my life for only being 26), plus I'm disabled from a car crash and my body aint what it used to be. And when I say 4 foot seas I mean from the bottom of the trough to the top of the crest. Now if it was 4' with a short wave duration, no way would I be running that fast.

For those of you that have I/O's in your V-20's, do your transoms have wood all the way across or just in the center? The model on mine according to the coast guard placard is a V-20 I/O, yet it came with a sea-drive. Giving serious thought to making my 140HP EVINRUDE into a 25" shaft and mounting on a bracket to the back of this V-20. It should provide good performance and decent economy.