Live Well question

[yodaddy]

I've got a '76 V20, and the fish boxes in the deck are not live wells. Not sure if any V20's came with live wells.

I built a prototype live well in my '83 V20 towards the end of last season but never got it perfected. I'm using 2 pumps, one for fresh water, and the other pump for discharge, and a thru-transom high speed water pickup. The live well works fine when the boat is at rest, but I need to fine tune the high speed pickup.

There are some catalogues in the archives, but no manuals that I am aware of.

Good luck with the V!

[tsubaki]

Yep, fishboxes/floorcoolers that drain into the bilge.
Usually no connecting pipes, just drains to the bottom of the boat and into the bilge.

[phatdaddy]

bryant, this is a 500gph pump that i put on the transom and ran the hose through the splashwell where the motor controls go and out of the rod boxes on the gunnel. then into a 35 gal plastic tank with a drain back over the splashwell. tsubaki is right on about the floor boxes, not good live wells at all. i put a pvc 45* on the intake so i can "scoop " water on plane without using the pump. if your interested in that type of set up, i can snap some pics of the interior.

[captwalt]

I would be interested in some more pic's. im going to do mine during christmas week and would like all options. Thanks Walt

[bryant]

Thanks to everyone for responding. I guess I just was not paying attention when I bought the boat. Not that it matters I was more interested in the hull than the extras. I will probably do what I have done in the past and use a cooler.

[RABBITFISH]

That looks like a sprinkler system under the boat?

[phatdaddy]

i have 3 heads under the keel and 2 on the outside of the wheels of the trailer. i hooked up a solenoid valve and timer and when i back in i turn on the sprinklers for 10 minutes and rinse the trailer & bottom of boat...
next year, im going to install a Salt Away dispenser in line.