V20 Vs. Bertram 20

[RidgeRunner]

Cadillac style right there BS. I see you over there at CSC. That is one super 23 right there. Good write-up too. If V-20 had a Gucci Award for other, you got my vote.

[bradford]

Damn.... Got some serious wood.

Especially that 25 running through the chop.....Damn...

Bigshrimpin, I posted a few of those In the For Sale section off craigslist with you in mind. Both were in New York I think.

Yup, here they are:

http://wellcraftv20.com/community/sh...ad.php?t=19928

Might have been the same boat, although I thought they looked different. $1800 might be pricey though for a project boat.

Yours is SWEET!

The last time I loaded the V on the trailer a truck was backing down with a restored incognito Seacraft 23. Hot girl at the helm who then backed her off the trailer turned in the channel and planed off all by her lonesome.

The Wifey thought she was pretty cool too.

[dan4836]

The 23 Seacraft is one of my favorite but I never was able to sea trial...

As soon as you get a little bigger than the V20, the power you need to push goes way up and so does the fuel bill.

I bought my V20 because I can run this all over without worrying about the fuel bill. I have the Mercruiser 470 and this is by far the most economic boat I ran. Before my V20, I had a 17 Aquasport with a Evinrude 88SPL. My V gets about twice the fuel economy.

I was out with a friend in a 24 Rampage - the boat is a tank but with a single V8 it's slow and terrible on the MPG.

[bigshrimpin]

Dan - The 23 seacraft isn't too bad on fuel. Almost identical to my v20 with a 200 yamaha.

Bradford - That guy in NY with the 25 was a nut bag. He posted on the CSC site that he took the boat and had it crushed at the Nassau County Landfill. I know people that offered him full price.

Please post some pics of the seacraft lady . . . That must have been a real site to see.

[dan4836]

That's good to know...

I thought the 23 Seacraft would be terrible because of the deep V. I guess the strakes really help.

[inaforty]

Big Shrimpin,
Great video!

This one list on Cape Cod

http://capecod.craigslist.org/boa/4433503231.html

[spareparts]

the Seacraft is very fuel efficient, the inverted strakes aerate the hull longitudinally, its kinda hard to see whats going on unless you run in another boat beside one. We ran a 23 with a single 225 Opti from Charleston to the Georgetown hole and back(55 miles one way) on about 38 gallons. I was way too rough to fish, but the boat handled it well. The 20 Seacraft is a great inshore boat, but its not in the same class as the 23

[bigshrimpin]

Originally Posted by dan4836

That's good to know...

I thought the 23 Seacraft would be terrible because of the deep V. I guess the strakes really help.

The variable deadrise makes it plane real easily. outer panels are about 10 degrees.

This is from the professional boat builder article. One of the unmentioned boats competing for the contract mentioned below was supposedly the Alim v20 which was already being used by military.

http://www.classicseacraft.com/broch...sly/index.html



this was a pic of the v20 and the powercat going to war . . . note the comments.

[THEFERMANATOR]

Originally Posted by dan4836

The 23 Seacraft is one of my favorite but I never was able to sea trial...

As soon as you get a little bigger than the V20, the power you need to push goes way up and so does the fuel bill.

I bought my V20 because I can run this all over without worrying about the fuel bill. I have the Mercruiser 470 and this is by far the most economic boat I ran. Before my V20, I had a 17 Aquasport with a Evinrude 88SPL. My V gets about twice the fuel economy.

I was out with a friend in a 24 Rampage - the boat is a tank but with a single V8 it's slow and terrible on the MPG.

I don't know about this. I had to downsize and dropped down to a 16 foot JON boat. Even with my old school 35HP JOHNSON 2 smoke, I still only burned a bit over 3 gallons for 4 hours of riding on the river. I miss having a big boat, but the fuel bill of this JON boat is NICE in comparison. At $5 a gallon for ethanol free down here, I will stay downsized for awhile. It's bad enough having to put that $4 a gallon go juice in the BURB just to get out on the water.