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Kevin,
In my experience the V 20 was a high production boat and the build quality wasn't great. The reason "IMO" that many of us here have or have had a V 20 is Ray Hunt deep V hull. It's one of the better riding 20' hulls. Being that they were a high production boat they are more readily available to the common man. There are other Ray Hunt 20' boats but most are $$$ and in short supply. Not to mention that many of the older 20' Bertrams (etc) will need a complete over haul because of age and construction techniques used when they were being built many years ago. Boat construction is 20/20 with hindsight. Even great boat builds find flaws in their design and construction when put to the test of time. I own a 35' Bertram and can tell you that's it's built like a tank but time has exposed flaws in the design and executions of the construction. I will leave the question about stringer to transom construction question to someone else with much more knowledge then me to give the correct answer.
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Regards Barry 1987 V20 (sold) :( 1996 23' Wellcraft 1991 V20 ;) 
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Those are the cleanest deck removal pics I've ever seen.
Like Forty said, Wellcraft was great for buying the patents and mass producing a lot of high end hull designs. If they spent an extra 100 bucks per hull towards tightening up some loose ends you wouldn't see some of the stupid shortcuts that cause problems later down the road. Keep in mind though, they weren't thinking about you and your project 30-40 years in the future when they laid her up back in 1982. What were you doing in 1982? I was in Miss Jones 1st grade class, I'm 40 now.
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1985 Wellcraft V-20, Evinrude ETEC 150: SOLD 1979 Marine Trader 44, twin Ford Lehman 120s 2006 Panga 14, Tohatsu 20 Last edited by bradford; 03-11-2016 at 09:37 PM.
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