photo's of my 1976 23 footer

[Blackwater21]

I plug the drain holes because some water does come in the deck drains. I have ball scuppers on the splash well and i rarely get any water in there unless a wave comes over the transom.

As far as performance, it does well. Top end is around 50 with a full load. I can beat a Hewes 20 with a 150. Average fuel economy is 1.4 miles per gallon with the EFI's

I have been running Mercury products since 1991 and have never had a major problem with any of the engines. I have a 1999 Mercury 225 EFI on a 21 ft Maverick flat and it is still running perfect like the day it was new. Get this it has 1376 hours on it. I don't use this boat as much as i should. The hours on the twins is just under 500 hours.

I completely made new hatches from scratch. i didn't like the original ones. The thing i hate most is that huge splash well. I have two above deck live wells because the one in the splash well sucked. So i glassed it over and now you would even know that it existed.