new to forum - my V-20 project

[macojoe]

Welcome to the site.

You can drill a few small (1/4) holes on the inside of transom and see what comes out? Clean wood you are great, dirt you rotted.
You can also just put the motor on there and when tilted up, grab the tail of the motor and lift up, cracking or movement you need transom, n cracking sound or movement you good to go.

Can also get a Jack Plate to lift motor up the 5" so you are able to run the 25" shaft with out filling the transom. If the transom is in good shape.

Gas tanks are 20 gal each.

[nepatsfanatic]

Hi macojoe, thanks for your reply and welcoming me aboard. I did a little wrestling on the transom and it definitely has movement, my motor stand is two sheets of 3/4 ply with a few screws and there is no comparison, night and day. I want to make a real nice job of this boat and do it right, gotta have solid transom. Is there an advantage to the jack plate system or is it just to save the notch work? Thanks for the tank info, are they standard on that model? I'm wondering what the range will be with the 225. I see you run a four stroke 225, economy must be better, how do you like it?