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I went out last night on my B20. She's getting a lot of use lately. A friend was out and took a few pics. Colby (dog) always fishes with me. Light tackle fishing on the Bay has been a lot of fun lately. Small, but keeper size rock, and blues. We've smoked a lot of bluefish lately.

Cruising by at under 20 knts. She's pretty quick--cruise at 4200 is 31 knts, and when we're in a real hurry, she'll top 40 knts. at WOT.

Bow shot-

Looks great.....where's the like button;).

Ray

Pretty work -- looks great up and running!

Double on where the like button is??

Tom

Love it! The bow shot is the "I mean business" shot!

Great shots John! Would love to have a B20 project boat someday. Not many her in PR..

Love it!

Very nice. Was that a sportsman or a converted moppie?

John, great shots..nothing like time on the water..especially on a Bertram..BH

Thanks. She's a converted moppie.

John, still looking good!! We've had some beautiful weather lately.

Nice.

I picked up a 1966 B20 Moppie a little while ago, with the original straight six engine (recently rebuilt and still running good), and have been thinking about a repower. Mainly because the original 1966 Mercruiser outdrive doesn't have true trim... you can only run it up, after which you manually put this metal hook thing on the transom to hang the outdrive in the "up" position. I've never seen or heard of such a contraption before this boat, and I don't much like it.

Anyway, I hadn't given outboard engines much thought, but after looking at your photos I am now. How big of a deal was it to reinforce the transom? Any particular reason you didn't use a transom bracket?

EDIT: I have a bad habit of hijacking threads and i just did it again. I'll start a new one