Your Quick inspection guidelines for buying a used V-20

[reelapeelin]

Drag's got most of my tests down already...if has a motor and will tilt up, apply your body weight to the foot and listen...noisy crackling or silence...guess which is a bad thing...walk ALL OVER all decks including the foredeck ahead of the windshield...I like Drags idea of backing out a couple of screws in the transom..watch for tea-colored water escaping...pull all floor hatches, visually inspect w/a flashlight...try to get to the stringers and jamb them w/a screwdriver...if you punch thru, then problems...feels hard...good thing...get UNDER the hull...look at the keel front to back...good luck and let us now what you do...

If it passes all my and Drag's test, WET TEST it if you can...

[willy]

Look for cracks along the bulkhead which is the wall you step thru going into the cuddy, cracks running along that floor wall seam and out from it are not good.Minor small or thin ones are not a big problem, yet, but a sign of something coming. Maybe years down the road. Cracks that run all along and especially radiating out are a sign that the bulkhead is rotted out. I found two or three of those while I was shopping, also sit in the helm seat and rock back and forth and look for the floor flexing a lot there.
Soft spot in the cover over the gas tank is common due to cheap construction and support there by Wellcraft and a fairly easy repair.