92 V20 Cuddy Update

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Thought I would throw out an update since the season is wrapping up and I've done more work on the new boat than taking it out on the water. It seems to be 30+ winds every weekend since I brought it home.

I took it out once for a few hours. It has about 30 gallons of 5 year old gas in it. Some how it runs well with this gas. I burned about half of it and need to take it out once more to empty it out. Seafoamed it while I was out also. Runs great, had no issues running around the West and South rivers.

Did a general cleaning and tried to address any major issues before I button it up for the winter. Replaced the boots on all of the toggles to keep water out.



The dash switches were easy to replace because they are a standard 15/32 thread. The choke was a little trickier.



The Yamaha switch is a M12-1 thread. I replaced that boot with Part #335-1125-ND from Digi-Key.

The PO seemed to love to use screws for countersunk holes where I would have used a regular sheetmetal screw.

Rod holder:



More concerning the swim platform brace. Not sure how well that is sealing to keep water out of the transom.


Love the boat so far. Working on a PVC winter cover support. Bought one of the oval pool tarps, will hopefully see how it fits tomorrow.