battery placement

[BillTex]

Let’s take a step back; what is the motivation for moving the batteries away from the stern anyway?

Maybe I’m missing something...but I just don’t see a good reason.

Unless you have hung an over weight engine on the stern why do you want to do this?

Thx, B

[Slightly_Twisted]

In about a year ish when I repower. I’m going to hang a 36 in set back bracket with a swimming platform and a 200 hp off the transom. I need to rewire the boat now to get a number of basic functions working. With the current under deck setup the only place for the batteries is the transom. With the planed extra weight in the stern I’m trying to offset it as much as possible. I’m doing it now one because I already have everything I need and two I don’t want to have to move the batteries latter rewiring the boat twice.

[steplift20]

Hold on your saying you are going to put on a 36 inch extension( 3 feet sea drive swim platform) off the transom and put on a 200 hp hanging plus a swim platform so you can stand on ?
To me it sounds dangerous Like it's going to rip your transom off But that's just me I would really like to know what the big guns think, I love the steplift too but I don't know if I like that idea

[fixit]

thats awsome, i thought about that but lacked the nuts to start cutting holes.
with a 350mag/bravo 1 in my boat im always looking for ways to get weight forwards.

and yes i have trim tabs already

[bgreene]

The most important issue seems to be how to secure the battery rather than moving the weight.

I'd suggest securing to withstand constant pounding in 3' seas.........meaning more securely set and braced than needed. " Overbuilt" as the saying goes..

[Slightly_Twisted]

typo should have been 2 not 3.

So looking at putting a standard 18-26 in bracket on.

[phatdaddy]

Seadrive model is a great candidate for a bracket. Go to the gallery to page three look at Vicsv20. Same deck layout as twisted has. Also macojoes is on there also. His was an I/O hull.

Main drawback to moving batteries is size of cable required to get starting volts/amps back to engine

[BillTex]

Originally Posted by steplift20

Hold on your saying you are going to put on a 36 inch extension( 3 feet sea drive swim platform) off the transom and put on a 200 hp hanging plus a swim platform so you can stand on ?
To me it sounds dangerous Like it's going to rip your transom off But that's just me I would really like to know what the big guns think, I love the steplift too but I don't know if I like that idea

I didn’t want to be the first to say it...but I agree.

I think the OP bought the wrong boat.

The V20 is a great/versatile hull.We love ours. But it sound like you should be in a 23 Formula or similar. I think you are trying to make this boat something it is not.

Good luck, be careful

[Striper80]

Originally Posted by BillTex

I didn’t want to be the first to say it...but I agree.

I think the OP bought the wrong boat.

The V20 is a great/versatile hull.We love ours. But it sound like you should be in a 23 Formula or similar. I think you are trying to make this boat something it is not.

Good luck, be careful

There’s plenty of guys on this very sight that have done this conversion.

[BillTex]

Originally Posted by Striper80

There’s plenty of guys on this very sight that have done this conversion.

The OP was proposing a 36" bracket with a 200 hp engine hanging off it.

Who else has done that?

The Steplifts that came with an OE bracket had a small 4 cyl (135 hp?) and I am pretty sure it wasn't a 3' lg extension.

I would not do what the OP proposed...but that's me.

Be safe, Bill