Your Dream V20 $ No Object

[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!

[cterrebonne]

i see the purpose of the thread now.

new alum gill bracket with twin 90hp e-tecs. custom fuel tank to hold 120 gals. radar, twin chartplotters, nice big FF, it would be really cool to have a large fishbox incorporated in the transom. livewell lean post. i would like all the cockpit floor to be teak. A sort of bimini style top that they use on the big sportfishers would be nice to get out of the sun too.

[2ndCurse]

Got alot more out of this than I figured, most of you even got it. The idea was what you'd do to "this" boat to make it perfect. I'd love a 33' Grady or 60' sportfish also, but we're on a V20 forum.

Someone said that the cc and dc rode better than the cuddy. Anyone else notice that? Why? Weight distribution?

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by 2ndCurse

Got alot more out of this than I figured, most of you even got it. The idea was what you'd do to "this" boat to make it perfect. I'd love a 33' Grady or 60' sportfish also, but we're on a V20 forum.

Someone said that the cc and dc rode better than the cuddy. Anyone else notice that? Why? Weight distribution?

Generally the further back one is in a boat, the softer the ride...the Cuddy's capt and rider are further forward than in the DC and CC versions...

[Blue_Runner]

Spot on as usual reel! So, going with the spirit of this thread, I would also add auto-pilot to a cuddy model. That way, I can ride in the back.

[2ndCurse]

I'd never heard that, everyone just says how well the V rides. I was thinking weight distribution had something to do w/ it. Didn't even think about the position of the driver. I can't imagine that a set of tabs wouldn't even the field.

[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.

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by 2ndCurse

I'd never heard that, everyone just says how well the V rides. I was thinking weight distribution had something to do w/ it. Didn't even think about the position of the driver. I can't imagine that a set of tabs wouldn't even the field.

Take it from one who just added tabs...HUGE improvement...