20ft SeaCraft With Twin V4's??? Just Thinking OL..

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dunk ther was a 20 with twin merc2.5s on it down in the keys a few years ago. It sat real low of course and i saw it listed in the boattrader about a year ago. also in the potter years they would factory rig twin 70 hp hope this helps

Now we're talking... I don't know how long ago you are talking about, but when I was living in the Keys in the late 80's there was a 23 in Islamorada with a pair of 2.5 Bridgeport Offshore 260's. I was running one of the headboats for Robbie at Holiday Isle on the night trips. I was coming up Rt1 just at the end of Lower Matecumbe at the Lignumvitae Key channel where it runs from Robbie's up to Papa Joes along RT1. These two guy's had just run the wheel ditch up behind Matecumbe and were lining up to run up to Papa Joes. I was pacing them, speedometer in the truck was reading 80mph and that 23 Seacraft was walking away from me.
You have to see that boat run to believe it. I never did see that boat again. I'm not sure if he was local or not.

I've seen some wild rigs built once you put USCG regs behind you.. Even a 75mph+ 20ft Whaler Outrage with a pair of 175 Evinrude Ficht's on it.

Finster..as you guy's get to know me you'll find that I'm dead set against bracketed outboards. Unless the boat was designed from the mold up to handle the engine(S) 30" behind the hull most don't run the way they should. I think it's an especially bad idea on seacrafts because you are putting the best part of the wave cutting deep vee in the air where it won't do you any good. Yes, patching up an old stern drive with a bracket for an outboard is good way to save the boat because you are removing a 1000lbs of sterndrive and engine. Boats like that were designed to handle the weight on the transom. My next rule is nothing under 23ft get's a bracket. Moving the engine 30" behind a boat like 20ft Seacraft that was never designed for it, I think is foolish just to gain a little space in the rear of the boat. There's too much "Notched Transom" fear running rampent on the internet. The biggest reason boats sink from water over the transom is not keeping your deck access plates water tight. 90% of the boats I survey I find bad orings or broken access plates that will let water flow into the bilge.