Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Well, today I went out and tossed a rope up and over a tree limb in the back yard and attached one end to my lawn tractor. I hooked the other end to the front of the boat and started driving until the front of the boat was up in the air. I slowly pulled...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Put the final layer of 1708 over the transom and it went on great. Now I just have to cut out the hole for the drain tube. I am going to try to use a hole saw but I am not sure it is deep enough to cut all the way thru. Next I am going to flip the boat...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Took the clamps off and got the fillets in around the transom and tabbed in with 1708. Ran out of time so 2moro I will finish with a layer of 1708 over the whole thing. I sure like the way that 1708 lays down it is a lot easier than that csm. I used a...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Well, got the transom in today. Sure would of been nice to have an extra set of hands had to do it myself but seemed to go pretty smooth. I have to thank Woodonglass for all the drawings and expert advise and especially for the drawings of those 2x4...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
I have a question about my floor. This pic is the closest I have found to what I think my floor looked like from the factory. I would think that everytime you drop something it would slide under the floor between the ribs. I would like to put a full...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Ok ... This may be a dumb question to most of you but being a newbe I have to ask this. How important is it that when replacing the transom it extends all the way to the sides of the hull? When I removed the rotted transom I made the new one exactally...
Re: Does this look like a '64 MFG?
No .... the plate on the transom was on the boat when I got it and it was issued in Pa. Pa is the one that set the hp limit on my boat according to the ODNR. ODNR issued a small tag with just a "NEW" hull number.
This is the plate that was on the boat:
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
I had sealed the transom with a coat of poly resin and after a couple of hours I then applied the csm and resin again for a second coat but I have what appears to be air bubbles as marked with the red arrows in the pics. Do I need to grind them out and...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Ok .... I know that all of you thought that I had gone to sleep over here in Ohio but actually the humidity has been terrible and wasn't able to get anything done but today the humidity dropped and I was able to get the transom sealed up and ready to be...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
I stand corrected .... earlier in this thread I had posted that the ribs in the hull were made of wood but I went out today and really checked them and they are not wood but fiberglass.
I had purchased this boat from an 84 yr old gentlman who couldn't remember what kind of boat it was. In the paperwork that he had given me I found a bill of sale from when the PO purchased it in '86 but all it said was that it was a '64 MFG fiberglass boat. I have not been able to find it in the...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
I have my transom all made and I am ready to seal it with the poly resin but it has been hot and really humid here in Ohio. I planned on sealing it early in the morning when it is cooler but the humidity is still high. Is this going to effect the resin...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
My boat has metal stringers that are bolted to the transom. These bolts go thru the outer skin and transom and are below the water level. Do I need to pre drill these holes before installing the transom or after everything is in and glassed up? And how...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
I was able to sand it to shape and it fits good but man that sure took a lot of sanding. I am going to seal it with one coat of resin and then one layer of csm on friday and then I will be ready to put it in this weekend. Do I need just one layer of csm...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Thanks Cad for the info .... The transom that was in there was pretty rotted but appeared to be made of several pieces of boards that were formed to make the curve. There was on piece of ply in the middle as you can see in the pic. You are right the...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Here is a pic looking down into the boat where the old transom was and you can see the middle area is about 1 1/2" and the tapers down to nothing on the ends. ( not sure if this pic helps or not )
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
I glued with PL Adhesive three layers of 3/8 ply together to make the transom which was very straight and true. I then was going to attach it to the boat with poly ( Peanut Butter ) but when I dry fit it in the boat I noticed that at the bottom of the...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Ok ... This is for you wood workers out there. I tore out my old transom ( actually I shop vac'd it out 'cause it was like wet coffee grinds ) and made a new one. I followed all the advise on here to build the new one and it came out great. Not having...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Hi everyone ......... I removed the metal stringers from the boat so I am able to tab around the transom without problems. The bolts holding it in seem to be glassed into the bottom of the hull on the inside and some of them were a little stubborn and...
Re: Need help with transom repair w/pics
Here are more pics. In the one pic you can see how the main stringer is bolted to the floor and the other pic shows the outer shell thickness where I removed the transom. The third pic shows the inside ribs. I don't know a whole lot about boats with this...
