72 V20 closed bow

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by RetNav

I have a spare closed bow V20 with the saddle tanks and am wanting to put
a 60 gal tank in the floor, like my V20 sport fisherman. I have access to a
tank with all the fittings, in a junker 20' sportscraft boat I can use.

Is this doable or not?

The transition to belly tanks from saddles took place over several year models for Wellcraft...'78-'83...but the 1st thing that they did was raise the floor just above outside water level in order to make it self-draining...so there is more vertical space under the later model floor decks than your 70's model like the one pictured below...Wellcraft advised me not to try it way back when I wanted to trash the saddles, but somebody here did do it...

Also, they moved it forward and back...as in my '84 is all the way back to the front of the splashwell...the '95 V21 I had was about mid way of the cockpit...which is where I'd put it if I's gonna try that conversion...there's already too much weight on the aft end of these boats...

And you wanna check to see if the tank you intend to use will fit between the stringers...you probably don't wanna start relocating those...