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Old 05-06-2005, 04:26 PM
ddayacos75 ddayacos75 is offline
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I want to know what you would do. My boat is a 20'with V-8. Was thinking of repowering with a 4 cyl I/O, but changed my mind. Want to use an O/B mainly because there is a lot more choices ex. makes,HP,2 or 4 stroke,singles or twins,new and used. I would use this for mainly trolling and bottomfishing.We mainly troll the 100 fathom ledge for ono,mahi and check the FADs out for any action or cruise along the 1000 or 2000 fathom chasing porpoise, birds or looking for rubbish. With the V-8 the stern sat pretty low and burn more gas in 5-6 hours than my honda would use in 2 weeks. The boat goes up hill perfect cant recall it ever slamming once but downhill sometimes a little iffy swells would make the boat surf for a petty good distance having to steer and cut gas sometimes. In the picture the waterline wasnt exactly like this but just to give you an idea. The transom you can see I was sketching out what size of a bracket I wanted never seen one in person and was wondering how do you calculate flotation to get rough estimate. If the transom is good i will do upgrades in phases. I hoping of getting a bracket, new fuel tank and a used O/B for now(no $$$) and raise the floor and all the drains later. What do you guyz think or would do? I just wanted some input from other seacraft owners. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]
If money was no object I would want any of these: [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img] Friends boats.
1. 29' Surrat troll all day rough weather
2. 26' KamiCraft Great all a round boat
3. 33' Kinfe Fast,toilet, roomy, overnighters



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