AT LAST!!

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OK fellas,

Here it is! 1987 V-20 Fisherman SDM

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A little dirty, but a very solid hull.

I finally found my full transom!

Its taken two long years to find one. This one has been sitting for a while. You should of seen it before I pressure washed it. It was literally green. It still has the original SeaDrive mount. Some soft spots in the deck, but nothing major. Mainly just cosmetic stuff. It is a work in progress, but it runs good enough to fish this summer.

Here are more Pics:

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Cowling is shot! I do plan to repower. But I'll use this engine until it quits.
The previous owner put a rebuilt 1985 Johnson 235 on it in 1993(since that model engine bolts right up). It has no hour meter. But it seems to run nice. I've only had it in the water about an hour. Notice where the dumba** that painted the bottom put the paintline about three inches above the actual waterline, jeez. :(

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Ahh! the best part, that smooth DRY ride.

Anyways, I'm excited to finally have another V-20. I'll keep y'all posted on the progress. Now, I gotta get back to the wiring.


Chris
 
Hey fellas, what about that transom?  Doesn't it look like someone filled a notch there?  Or is that how the seadrives look?

P.S. Nice boat!! Keep us posted on your work, fishing, beer drinking, women...oooops, I veered off the straight and narrow there for a sec :D

Curious in NC,  ???
Blue
 
CBE,

Nice find!  Hey, when you say that the 1985 235 Johnson bolts right up, are you talking about the engine power unit or are you talking about the whole engine with the lower unit?  

I've heard mixed opinions on this.  At the end of the day, I didn't think it could be done, so I'm removing my Sea Drive and replacing it with a bracket.  The move to the bracket is inevitable for most Sea Drive owners, but that would have been a nice, fairly easy fix since my Sea Drive works well, but motor is shot.

Anyway, congratulations once again on finding a great boat.  If you don't mind my asking, how much did you pay for her?  
 
I'm really thinking this was a notched transom that was filled. Not a bad thing at all! If it is a filled notch I would just like to know how he did it, as would others here. CBE, if you can, take some interior pics esp. of the transom area that would be cool!

Blue
 
I am wondering the same thing Blue, I looked at four sea drive boats over the year and a half shopping and none of those or mine for that matter had anything but what you see in Grace's gallery shot. A full transom and full transom cap about a foot wide across the top.
CBE let us know if you can what the story is because you have an anomaly there, if you can post some pics from the inside also looking back onto the transom.
Either way good luck with the V, they are fine boats and I here the CC's are great set ups ;)
 
I don't belive it was a fill job!!

I think that is a custom job of some kind for the inside of the boat?? Maybe even factory option of some kind?

And a good one as the cap piece is a perfect copy of the rest of the cap, all the lines match!
 
I think its factory. When i was shopping for mine i came across one with the same setup, there is a flat area like a bench seat and access to the battery area on the interior.

I liked it alot just the whole pkg. was to much $ at the time. And I have heard that the omc motors will bolt up to the seadrive but the seadrive part is very heavy. I think braket way to go. Gotta like that solid transom.

Good job cbe interior pics and clear this up...

Hey no glass in the windshield or super clean and looks like he needs another bimini

he needs parts for his v20 from that parts supply house

MacoJoe V20 Parts and Advice
 
My guess is that the transom is factory. The cap on my 89 I/O is the same across the back. I think it was made this way so that 1 cap would fit all engine / hull combinations.
 
Don't think so, think it has to do with something ordered from the factory that way. Because every sea drive and I/O I've seen to date in classifieds, on the web and here had the full wide transom. There must of been some type of option you could order to have the transom set up that way.
Did your I/O have a seat in there or something else?
 
Yea thats it exactly Rick, take a look at the cap on his boat and take a look at that pic, the transom cap is at least a foot deep all across the back, his has what looks like a factory done area in center that is only a couple inches deep. Interesting, anyone know why that was done ???
 
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