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Originally Posted by Bushwacker
With all due respect to Big Shrimpin, who I know is a big fan of the V-20 and maybe the father of the web site, I knew 3 more guys at Pratt with V-20's who had similar problems with loose stringers and big hull cracks!
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I did start the v20 site and passed it off to MJ in 2007 after the site went down on Christmas day in 2006. The Alim v20 design is from 1960/1 with slight variations up through the v21 in 1996. None of them were built to last especially the early wellcraft ones 1970 - 1978. There's only one fix IMO for the V20 construction and it's the a reason I own a seacraft now ; ) and that's all I'll say about the subject. If you want a better C Raymond hunt design than the v20 check out the Hiliner 21 / 222 (which is the 2.0 improved version of the 20 bertram).
Some interesting similarities b/w the Hiliner and seacraft . . .
1. Big Box foam filled stringer grid
2. C Raymond Hunt designed a water ballast system for the hiliner hull in the early 1970's that was later built into the Hiliner 222 superfisherman models.
3. Hiliner 222 hull competed and even place first in class in some late 60's offshore races (These were the races after the decision to allow non-production hulls to enter races)
