‘74 20’ SF new transom
 

Hello All,

I’ve had this boat for around 9yrs. The time has come to redo transom, I’m also having a new fuel tank made. My plan is to make the transom 27” then hang a new Etec 135HO on it. May also put the motor on a 6” setback hydraulic jack plate.

I would also like to do away with the the transom well and make the seats next to it about 1/2 the size and bring them up to gunnel height. Port side would be for tackle box storage, stbd side for rigging and filter.

Also looking into deleting the thru floor drains and moving them out the transom with ping pong scuppers.

I’ll try to post up some pics.

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Anyone know where I can get that Pathfinder console I posted a pic of ?

I think most people get the consoles here:

http://www.themarineconnection.net/Consoles.html

Have you contacted Maverick Boats in Ft. Pierce?

I have not. I did contact a Pathfinder dealer in NJ, haven’t gotten a response yet.

Need to look into the liquidator place mentioned above.

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Happy with the progress so far

Picked up a hydraulic jack plate. 5.5” setback around 6” up/ down adjustment.

Anyone have any experience using jack plates on a 20’ SF?

I think that's the right way. Looks good!

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Just about ready to start rewiring and rigging

Very nice results....now the fun part. To answer your question I only have experience on the 23'er with a manual jack plate. If you are at 27" on your transom I'd try the engine without the jack plate, then if you wanted you could put on the jack plate later. I think at 27" you should be able to get the engine mounted perfectly, my 25" was just too low, by about 2" of course, and I went with the 6" plate.

Thank you Don

Some pics with T-top finally mounted. Been putting some hours on the E-TEC, very happy with the performance and especially the fuel economy

Beautiful work, I'm in the middle of a similar project on the same boat! I am planning on running oval suppers out of the back of the transom but not raising the deck height, what did you do for scuppers? How high did you raise the transom, and has the jackplate helped at all?