[JWilliams]

Thanks for the encouragement! I will be getting together progress and final shots of some some details I worked out.

I bought the boat 5 yers ago and it only sunk once! It went under during a hurricane 4 years ago while tied to a floating dock. It was an outboard and the older 20's had a 20" transom so the deluge of rain over ran the bilge. That inspired the closed transome.

My advice to anyone doing this on a 20' would be to move all you can forward! Mine gets up and runs and rides well but sitting at a dock, it is so low in the back the scuppers do not drain because they are so low in the water. I put "ping pong ball" type stoppes on the transome outlet and they work great. Then built a sump (pics will come) with automatic bilge pump to handle rain and wash down at the dock. Not the best solution but works well.

The progress pics should be sent next week.