has anyone ever picked up the deck on a v20

[bigshrimpin]

The Transom is probably rotted . . . but I would do the transom repair from the outside, rather than inside out. Unless the desk cap core is rotted out too . . . I'd leave the deck cap alone.

Here's a good example of redoing the transom from the outside.

http://www.classicseacraft.com/hammers20CCpage2.htm