Can you Tell Me About This Boat?

[chumbucket]

The last two numbers of your hull ID designate the year of build.

Here's a link to our site history section.
http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/history

[Destroyer]

Chumbucket beat me to it, the last two numbers of your hull VIN number are what designates the year. So according to your photo, your boat is an 89. Nice looking boat. I'd look at the vents personally. I've had similar experience with another V where the water was coming it that way. Moved them and the problem went away.

[RidgeRunner]

Welcome aboard.

I have a 1983 F20. All info here is spot on.
I see your Mason jar of water/gas. Even the third one with a sliver of water is way too much. The pick-up tube that goes in the top of the tank extends down near the bottom so that little sliver will be the first thing to be sucked up. Once the water makes its way in the carbs, well you got a little more work to do. Carb cleaning will be in order if the boat has sat for 2 years anyway.
Reel has a point, even the pickup tube does not make its way to the dead bottom of the tank. That is where you need to go to get all the water out.

[chackett]

Thanks RidgeRunner,

I guess I should provide a little more detail. When I initially got the boat I siphoned off all the gas / water I could, until I was not able to siphon any more liquid out. Over the course of the next 5 weeks or so, I worked on engine and anytime I ran it, I ran it on a small external tank.

Once I got the motor running well, I put 20 gallons of fresh fuel in the internal tank. The next time I took it out, I started on the external tank, but when I switched to the internal tank, I couldn't get the motor to turn over. That's when I got towed back in (Thank you Boat US!) .. the day after I got towed in .. that's when I siphoned off the three mason jars I posted pictures of.

I probably siphoned off another 2 or 3 jars until there was no water in the tank. Then I ran the motor on the muffs for about 30 minutes total (10 minutes on, 10 minute rest, 10 minutes on, etc..) on the internal tank.

The following day I dropped the boat in the water and ran the remainder of the 20 gallons from the internal tank off. I'm really hoping the last bit of water I siphoned was just water that was left over from the first time I drained the tank and didn't get all the water that's in various places in the tank.

Thanks everyone .. really glad to be here.

Chris

[macojoe]

When ai got mine I drained as much as I could then thur the sending unit hoe I soaked up the rest with a rag till dry, then I knew I was god!

[aussie]

when cleaning fuel tanks I always add 1 litre of mentholated spirits to the tank--water mixes with metho and metho mixes with fuel I guess you all know that

[spareparts]

I've got to do some repairs to my fuel polisher, but all it is, is an electric fuel pump hooked to a water separating fuel filter. I hook it up to a hose with an extension of rigid line that allows me to "aim" it. I pull the fuel sender out an look for water on the bottom, you can vacuum it right out with teh pump, after I think I have it all out, I just hook it up to teh fuel outlet and let it cycle the fuel right back into the fuel fill. I've actually hooked it up and trailed the boat around the neighborhood to slosh it all around to get all teh fuel cleaned.