Revenge 20 W-T Deck Space

[Codeflow]

I understand the REVENGE 20 W-T is the same as the REVENGE 22 W-T minus two feet of the cockpit space.

What is the length of the cockpit space for either a REVENGE 20 W-T or a REVENGE 22 W-T?

I may be buying a REVENGE 20 W-T.

[jimh]

I understand the REVENGE 20 W-T is the same as the REVENGE 22 W-T minus two feet of the cockpit space.

Your understanding is correct. The two boats are essentially the same other than the 22-foot hull having a about two feet added deck space. The beam is the same. The cabin superstructure is the same.

There is one significant difference: the 20-foot hull has always had a full width splash well dam, just like the 18-foot and 25-foot hulls. The 22-foot hull initially had a much smaller center sink-type engine splash well, until the mold for the hull liner was re-done in c.1990.

I owned a REVENGE 20 W-T for several years. In order to stretch the deck space, I mounted the outboard engines on 10-inch set-back brackets. This put all the outboard engine rigging, cables, and steering aft of the actual transom. As a result the engine splash well was completely empty, other than the two battery boxes.

I kept the engine splash well overboard drains plugged. The splash well then became a dry space, and I used it for a cooler. I installed a small centrifugal pump in the splash well to remove any water that might accumulate there. With this approach, I essentially got two feet more cockpit space.

Fig. 1. The engine splash well on a REVENGE 20 W-T repurposed to be useful space. Photo by the author, taken September 2003 at Lund, British Columbia, Canada.

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I now have a REVENGE 22 W-T Whaler Drive. In addition to the two-foot-longer hull, the Whaler Drive adds another two feet, so this boat is really about four-feet longer than the REVENGE 20 W-T. There is a significant difference in trailering the two boats. The 20-footer was much less load for the towing vehicle, and overall much easier to launch or load at the ramp than the "22" with Whaler Drive has been.

[Codeflow]

Thanks, Jim. Great information.

Can you recall the approximate cockpit length minus the splashwell of the REVENGE 20?

How did you like the twin 90-HP setup? I’m looking at one with a single 200-HP two-stroke-power-cycle engine.

[jimh]

A REVENGE 20 with 200-HP will be very quick to accelerate onto plane and should have excellent top speed, probably 40-MPH or more. I base that on having a total weight of around 4,000-lbs, 200-HP, and a hull coefficient of 180. Crouch's method says boat speed 40.6-MPH. With that same input but reducing to 140-HP (as in my REVENGE 20) the predicted boat speed becomes 34-MPH--just what I was getting.

My twin Yamaha engines were 70-HP engines. The top speed was about 34-MPH when turning 17-pitch three-bladed Yamaha black steel propeller. The boat could not get on plane with one engine still using the 17-pitch propeller.

I do not miss the twin engines in terms of operating the boat and performance of the boat. My current boat is a single engine 225-HP and I like having only one throttle-shift control.

Of course, the twin engines were nice for having redundancy in case one engine would not run. With only a single engine, I am a bit more hesitant to take really long offshore trips alone.

I will give you a measurement of the length of my REVENGE 22 W-T Whaler Drive from the helm console aft bulkhead to the hull's transom outboard face (not to the Whaler Drive transom): 11-feet exactly. That is a funny number as it puts the helms right in the middle of a 22-foot hull. That sounds like something a Bob Dougherty-designed classic Boston Whaler boat would have.