Repairing factory voids on bottom of my v20

[Kracker Jack]

As some of you might know I ran my v20 in from 30 miles offshore and took a serious butt whoopin over month ago. After inspecting my hull I noticed I had a 50 to 60 inch lateral type fracture/Delam running down the flat of the bottom “step lift” chine. Fellas when I seen I freaked I knew it was the chine my stringers sat on.....or did I? With a bunch of emotions going I walked away the boat for about 2 weeks I couldn’t even look at it!!! Well I calmed down and decide to go and investigate what happened. I crawled under the boat and started looking around and I said to my self my stringer does not sit on that chine....it sit on the next one up!!! Which was solid as a rock. I crawled out from under the boat and jumped for joy!!!! I have never been so happy about a crack down the middle of your boat. So I broke out all my grinders and tools and started grinding and guess what I found? A void behind the gelcoat and chopped glass that I could run my pinky finger in! I had noticed when I first built the boat that the bow stem up towards the bow eye had hollows and voids that I had to grind out and fill with structual filler. I grinded out the keel up towards the bow stem and it was the worse shape. I’m gonna post pics showing repairs and voids as I found them. I used a coal chisel to lightly tap on the bottom in spot to find the dead sound where there was a void.(butt end of coal chisel had the perfect pitch to find dead sounding hollow spots) so it wasn’t my stringer at all. I’m sure I’m not the only boat that came out of that factory with voids in it.

[Kracker Jack]

Here’s more pictures of the repaired area and keel that had factory void in it

[Kracker Jack]

The first picture shows me pointing at the repair after I grinded a 50 inch void out of the bottom. I progressive lapped 1708 to build up repair area. The second picture show me pointing at the chine the main stringer rests on.

[bradford]

Glad to hear it's fixable, that boat is too pretty both in looks and functionality to get rid of, not to mention all your blood sweat and beers.

[Kracker Jack]

I aldo removed my floor from under my console for three reasons. To inspect stringers up forward, recess fuel tank in floor and repair small soft spot in my floor around my rigging tube that cracked on backside and was allowing water the penetrate coring. Stringers are solid as a rock and in great shape.

[SkunkBoat]

good to hear!

[wellcraftv20step]

Wow that's good news Kracker, we know you were pretty bumm'd about it .. Glad it's all working out !!

[inaforty]

Great news! Glad you're able to fix it.


Great hull design but Wellcraft could have put a little more effort it to build quality. Unfortunately it is/was a price point boat.

[purposebuilt]

Hows the progress