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10-29-2011, 08:52 PM
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10-29-2011, 09:02 PM
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Looks like you are starting out with not much to do on that 83, nice boat.
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*************************************** Stay Safe!  Sold - 1984 V-20 Cuddy with a 2003 Johnson 140 hp gas sippin 4-stroke. 1995 Ranger 250C with a 2015 Suzuki 300 hp 4-stroke.
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10-30-2011, 01:53 PM
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[QUOTE=steven;181578]The only difference that I can see in your 83 to my 84 is the seats they look identical.It looks in good shape to me,let us know what you plan on doing with the hull.Very nice v20 you will be as happy as I am.It took me 4 months to get mine kooking the way I want and still have more to do.
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10-30-2011, 11:54 PM
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Yes, my 83 and your 84 look very similar. Besides diffent seats, my rod boxs are slanted / / forward. Your looks stright [ ] up and down. I took the floor panel over the fuel tank off this weekend, as it was soft. . Apparently, water had leaked in through access pannels on the floor. The water, however, remained trapped betweeen in the wood between floor and fiberglass. The tank and surrounding foam were both dry! The wood between the fiberglass and floor was soaking wet. I made a small tear in the fiberglass and set the panel up on end. Water has been drippping out ever since. Obviously I'll have to redo that section of the floor, but nothing else too major, other than the antifouling paint on the bottom. (I have a seprate post on that). Of interest, when I removed the tank cover, I discovered that there were 2 wooden supports running across the top of the tank. Not sure if that is original or not, as I had seen pics in an earlier post, here there were no cross braces over the gas tank. Do you know if your had the same set up? (I recall that your tank had been previously replaced). Not sure if my tank need replacing, but am curious if it is original? Not sure how to tell?
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10-31-2011, 12:35 AM
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10-31-2011, 05:37 AM
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Soft, soggy fuel-tank lids are pretty common w/these boats...and yer right about the source of water intrusion...Wellcraft saw no need to seal the edge of the holes cut thru the lid for the inspection hatches...the two wooden supports were in mine also and I suspect were standard issue..not sure of their purpose...they seem to be held in place only by the foam around the tank and are well below the bottom of the hatch lid...
Here's mine when 1st opened   I had just talked to Spare about some things he had done w/a router...found a bit that worked and ran it around the edge  after the router did it's thing, bottom peeled back like an orange  Flatbar and this wide chisel cleaned off the remaining tiles  Here's the newly cored lid...not perfect, but came out OK for my 1st fiberglass job...SHOULD have beveled off the edges of the plywood so glass mat would lay down better...really had to work the stuff for it to make a 90* turn around the edges  Biggest problem reinstalling was several of the screw holes either were too big or just weren't there...cobbled different solutions to this and put it back in place...recaulked w/4200... Oh yeah...edges of inspection hatch holes are now glassed over and properly SEALED...if water gets back in, it won't be thru there...
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10-31-2011, 10:22 AM
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Why did Wellcraft go with the seperate tiles, instead of just one big piece of wood? What type of wood did you use? (marine grade plywood?) Also what was the thickness of your new piece? Thanks, Jim
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