Va Beach v20 project

[jasoncooperpcola]

Kracker the cap looks great. The ONLY improvement I could suggest is close that transom off, install a bracket and continue your rail around the transom.

[macojoe]

Great work!!!
I also agree with the closing of the transom and use of a bracket, nothing like a full transom to keep the water out!! At least if its not a 25" transom you can make it one now for more motor options.

[Kracker Jack]

Guys trust me I would love to close her in!!!! I would love to bump up to a 25 inch transom. I just don't have extra money to buy another motor. I'm gonna run this motor I have to get me by for now. This is not a boat that's gonna be used all the time and only in ideal conditions with nice weather Windows. She will have a solid transom before I die! But it won't be for another 2 or 3 years. Trust after all that I've learned on this build I'm not scared to cut into a boat and start doing some surgery! Lol!!! I actually called about a bracket today but still my motor is only a 20" inch shaft and she would be swimming most of the time with a bracket plus when I do the solid transom it will be with a new 25" inch motor. All in due time fellas.

[tartuffe]

Looks good Kracker! Looks like your almost out of the fabrication phase and onto the fine tuning for finish. Way to stick with it.

[Kracker Jack]

Originally Posted by tartuffe

Looks good Kracker! Looks like your almost out of the fabrication phase and onto the fine tuning for finish. Way to stick with it.

I can't wait for the fine tuning and fairing stage!!! That's were I'm gonna excell. I'm a perfectionist or atleast try to be. Yea I can't wait to slick her up and prime her. I have a buddy of mine who's a true genius when it comes to painting and he is insisting on painting this boat. He's gonna spray the VC performance epoxy on the bottom of the boat and paint the outside the boat "fighting lady yellow". I also have a cousin in Fayetteville,North Carolina who owns a auto/marine paint store and she is basiclly gonna give me the 3 quarts of Imron for the outside the boat. The inside is gonna be rolled gelcoat in a workboat style. I saw a boat today that inside was painted at the beginning of the summer and it already looks like poop!!! So gelcoat it is.

[Union Laker]

Well I have mine closed in so time for a bracket. Just have to plug the hole from the I/O. I just picked up a 25" Zuk 200 for the battle wagon.

What kind of Bracket do you reccomend, Designwise if we make one.
Looks like mightr need a spool gun for the MIG.

I/O is nice but the water is going away up here in the Great Lakes cant use the launches with I/O any More

Let me know on your Bracket research KJ

[macojoe]

My I/O convert, a flotation bracket is a must!! http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/album91

[Blue_Runner]

Man the boat sure is looking nice. What is even nicer is all of the room you are going to have in that thing. That's one of the things I liked about my old V20. It didn't have the molded in bait well and fish box which gave it a lot of room. Don't get me wrong tho, I like the molded boxes on the V21 because I use one for beverages and the other for fishies without having to take the cooler. I also bring along a fish bag for those lunkers that won't fit in the fish box. But I've only had to break out the bag once and that was for a fat YFT. Fish that won't fit in the box = an awesome problem to have IMO....