Your Dream V20 $ No Object

[willy]

I would take my 92 V and put a nice hard top on it with good rod holders on it(several) full canvass around it. A nice teak bow pulpit with power unit for the anchor.
The other major change would be either a Yammie, Suzuk or ETEC 150 on the transom. I would soda blast the hull and remove the bottom paint which it had when I bought her and do not need. I would do the hull bottom in a Petit Epoxy based two part paint and I would paint the hull sides in Awlgrip fighting lady yellow.
I would set up the stern with a auxilliary motor, like I had on Old School with a 25 hp four stroke for slow trolling or as and emergency get back engine. For that reason I would probably go with the Etec to keep weight down on the back or would do a relocate with one or both batteries. I would install some Bennett Tabs on her.
My hull is in great shape other than the changes I said I would make so she is a good canvass to paint on.
I actually saw almost this exact set up on a cherry V20 the same year as mine parked in a driveway down in the Point Pleasant area and stopped to look at her.
A V20 set up like that is just about the perfect inshore and light off shore fishing vessel and you could spend a great sum of money buying something new that would do as well. The draft is skinny enough to fish the back bays when you use the auxilliary motor, I had Old School in a foot and a half of water chasing some fishies with no problem. It is sea worthy and dry enough to run thirty to forty miles off shore and fish for any pelagics you have running and in the cold weather with the canvass hard top you could literally fish all year long bringing portable heat into it. While I like the bigger boats too, I don't want to tow them so I would say the V20 is the upper range of a fairly easy to tow boat and if that is in your equation then you will see my point.
Yea I think it would just about be the set up to beat.
Also, as I am sure many of you guys appreciate, the V20/V21 is one of the most beautiful boats on the water, the flair on the bow and the hull form along with their looks while underway is timeless, and what I call functional beauty. There are a lot of good boats, there are only a handful of boats that combine the classic beauty with capabilty of the V20.
JMHO

[cterrebonne]

money no object. 65" viking for the overnighters.s and a 34 fountain with trips for the tuna trips in the gulf. leave at 6 am and be back in time for a late lunch.

[RABBITFISH]

If you had unlimited funds and a V-20 hull, what would you do?

My wish would be for a mother boat that I could pick up my V20 and set on deck and travel anywhere I wanted! Sleep and live on mother boat and fish on my V20!

[tsubaki]

Originally Posted by rabbitfish

if you had unlimited funds and a v-20 hull, what would you do?

My wish would be for a mother boat that i could pick up my v20 and set on deck and travel anywhere i wanted! Sleep and live on mother boat and fish on my v20!

dey ya go!!

[Blue_Runner]

Wow, this is a great thread. I'd go with a Pompanette captain's seat and convert the port side into a custom couch with a gigantic fish box underneath. Also remove the windsheild and add a hard top with eisenglass enclosure on 3 sides and a removeable eisenglass rear curtain.

I'd buy they very best epirb and compact lifeboat money could buy. Then I'd rig it to the teeth with Shimano 30 wides, replace my 150 2 stroke with a new 150 4 stroke and head for the canyons!

That about sums it up.

[Blue_Runner]

Wow, this is a great thread. I'd go with a Pompanette captain's seat and convert the port side into a custom couch with a gigantic fish box underneath. Also remove the windsheild and add a hard top with eisenglass enclosure on 3 sides and a removeable eisenglass rear curtain.

I'd buy they very best epirb and compact lifeboat money could buy. Then I'd rig it to the teeth with Shimano 30 wides, replace my 150 2 stroke with a new 150 4 stroke and head for the canyons!

That about sums it up.

It is sea worthy and dry enough to run thirty to forty miles off shore and fish for any pelagics you have running and in the cold weather with the canvass hard top you could literally fish all year long bringing portable heat into it.

I can attest to that! Done both and these boats are freakin awesome IMO!

[Stillrunning]

I had the money and sold the V and purchased a bigger boat. Its sad as I see my V often and its just sitting at the guys dock and has been used twice in 2 months. The bottom is painted but the guy never painted the hydraulic area that sits in the water and it had never seen barnicles before and was very clean. The boat is dirty and I bet he never uses the flush on the motor and there was never a time the boat was used and not flushed when I had the boat. I wish I would have turned down his offer and waited for someone who would care for the boat and not just let the thing sit there and rot. I knew the guy and knew this would happen but he paid more then what I wanted and I even talked him out of the GPS unit. Oh well.