Codeflow wrote: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.