1981 V20 Restoration
- Thread starter Dana A
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Awesome job, my next project on my V 
steplift20
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I don't know how some of you guys do it. Taking the whole boat apart and repairing and rebuilding it,that's amazing work . I looked at the first picture when it was buried in the weeds and said to myself, that's a beautiful boat,I love that hull,mine is a 78 and I own her for over 20 years and I still love the hull and look and yours is amazing, I wish I had the knowledge to do what you are doing. You are doing a fantastic/ amazing job , I can't wait to see her when she is done. Great job for a great boat . 2 Thumbs up brother
Pipe_Dream
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Pipe_Dream
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Absolutely!Looking GOOOOOOOOD!!
Pipe_Dream
God
Tremendous!
Dana A
Member
The in-laws threw a monkey wrench into my labor force by acquiring a new 170 whaler two months ago after hounding me of "when is it going to be done" over and over.
So the boys get out of work now and off in the whaler just about every evening.
Instead of rushing to get it in now we will take our time on the fit and finish over the winter.
Paint work is done for now, new Taco black rub rail is on, Transom is done in white for now as I couldn't quite get the yellow tinted down to match the hull, (got it close but not close enough for me lol will use that yellow to paint the dingy), will start with a white and tint to yellow over the winter to get my match for the yellow transom.
Will post updated pics when the site is fixed
So the boys get out of work now and off in the whaler just about every evening.
Instead of rushing to get it in now we will take our time on the fit and finish over the winter.
Paint work is done for now, new Taco black rub rail is on, Transom is done in white for now as I couldn't quite get the yellow tinted down to match the hull, (got it close but not close enough for me lol will use that yellow to paint the dingy), will start with a white and tint to yellow over the winter to get my match for the yellow transom.
Will post updated pics when the site is fixed
Pipe_Dream
God
Well, for some reason it puts my applause BEFORE your quote instead of after, but anyway thanks for the update. It'll get done and we look forward to seeing more of it.
Dana A
Member
Looks like you're well on your way to bringing her back to life.
I'll go back to the second day of becoming a member of this site and Destroyer's above post not knowing I may be a little bit above average in the DIY arena.
Thank you Destroyer as that post was a big motivator for me to make the transom as perfect as possible.( almost like a "I'll show him" I've been carrying since December - LOL) Don't know how any hours I have into it but probably 3-4 times what I should have. If I were to do it again I would pull the liner and cut from the inside but at the time it was just going to be a transom job with no plan to pull the liner.
When we aligned the cut out panel we built a jig screwed on to the panel on the outside to keep the curvature while glassing the extension to make it a 25" transom.
Quick walk around last night
https://youtu.be/0IBxbw3GrCE
billfish16
Junior Member
Wow!!!!!
Dana A
Member
She's in
Finally went in July 17th, 1 year and 1 month late due to a major medical issue that raised its head last Sept, mis diagnosed as Diverticulitis, changed doc's Jan 1st and was diagnosed Prostate Cancer , stage 4b. Jan/Feb I could hardly walk. Had my last (6th) cycle of chemo July 15th 2 days before launch but battled thru this **** got it done.
I can fix a lot of **** but had to bring in some outside help on this one. Have a great team of doctors, a very aggressive treatment plan ADT/Hormone/Chemo all at once and so far the results are outstanding!
Most of my time since diagnosis was researching treatments and I'm gona fix this **** just like I did the boat!
Enough of that back to the boat
My son now hates the 2021 170 Montauk now that he has his V20. I feel the same way. V20 hull is the ride. I told the family why dont we get rid of the whaler and find a center console V20 and do it up. they looked at me like I had 6 eyes in my head.
I think the kids are on their 3rd tank of gas (70gal tank) Water sking,wake boarding, fishing, cruising.
Video of seatrial
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ukx1FCFn3NU
Finally went in July 17th, 1 year and 1 month late due to a major medical issue that raised its head last Sept, mis diagnosed as Diverticulitis, changed doc's Jan 1st and was diagnosed Prostate Cancer , stage 4b. Jan/Feb I could hardly walk. Had my last (6th) cycle of chemo July 15th 2 days before launch but battled thru this **** got it done.
I can fix a lot of **** but had to bring in some outside help on this one. Have a great team of doctors, a very aggressive treatment plan ADT/Hormone/Chemo all at once and so far the results are outstanding!
Most of my time since diagnosis was researching treatments and I'm gona fix this **** just like I did the boat!
Enough of that back to the boat
My son now hates the 2021 170 Montauk now that he has his V20. I feel the same way. V20 hull is the ride. I told the family why dont we get rid of the whaler and find a center console V20 and do it up. they looked at me like I had 6 eyes in my head.
I think the kids are on their 3rd tank of gas (70gal tank) Water sking,wake boarding, fishing, cruising.
Video of seatrial
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ukx1FCFn3NU
