V20 Vs. Bertram 20

[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.