Transom height for SC20 Master Angler

[Chaser]

Just a couple more

[strick]

I have some cousins in Bellingham that commercial fish. Thats a nice work boat you have there!

strick

[FishStretcher]

I have the same boat with a 370 lb four stroke and a 60 lb kicker, both batteries and fuel tank moved under the console, and a 20" transom. Yours is nicer than mine!

Someone mentioned Bellingham? (WA?) I would go with the 25" transom. I have the splashwell gate that eggsuckingdog mentioned and it works, but it is an annoyance. The motor, when tilted all the way up, will hit it. Some master anglers have a custom or later gate with a "dent" in it for a tilted powerhead.

[TooFly]

Originally Posted by Chaser

Chaser on the beach near our home in Anacortes.

Great pic!

[Chaser]

We've been using the boat now for a couple of months. Been out in everything from flat calm to a 3 foot chop in 25 knots of wind. In the lumpy stuff I was amazed how well the boat ran. At first I was unsure if we could get up on plane going upwind, I was just driving through the waves at low speed, but then hit the throttle and she jumped up on plane and just ate up the waves! It was super dry and very comfortable, and you could feel the power of that 175 just pushing the boat from wavetop to wavetop. It was like mogul skiing. Once on plane the boat never fell down into the troughs! The only time we got wet at all was when we had to stop to set marks.

Also did a 70+ mile tour of the Islands for my mom on mothers day. All day cruising with 5 people and a full tank of gas, and the boat cruised along at 25 knots at 4200 rpm. Still not sure how much fuel we used as the gauge appears to be inaccurate below 1/4 tank... (ask me how I know!) I just bought a Floscan which I plan to install to measure fuel burn.

We've done 5 nights of Race Committee work for the Yacht Club, setting and retrieving marks and staying on station to start and finish boats. The marks in the pic's are our racing marks, and the white rack is the flag rack which we use for signal flags.

I'm very glad I raised the transom. Thanks for all the advice from the forum. I'll post some more pics of the work I did.

[Chaser]

Transom before and after extension. I did this by building an insert out of 4 sections of 6mm marine ply laminated together with epoxy, then glassed over top with 6 layers each side of 1708 biaxial glass, also with epoxy. Then the insert was glued into the transom cutout, and galssed over with another 6 layers either side of 1708, wrapped over the top, and also run up the corners of the motor well, to further re-enforce the transom to the well. Its pretty f'ing strong now!

Also drilled out the motor well drain holes and glued in fiberglass tube to replace the plastic press fit drains that were there. Very clean looking once complete. I also did this to the bait well and cooler drains. Next winter I plan to do the same upgrade to the cockpit drains.

Deck re-core with rotten core removed, and with core laid in, before glass. The deck at the bow section was totally rotten, and got completely re-cored, and there were some smaller sections on the starboard side that were also done.