biglurr54
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Feb 14, 2011
- Messages
- 234
I have an Aluminum fish and ski and I have a bad feeling the transom wood is rotten. I have already replaced all the wood flooring, all the foam in the bottom of the boat, all of the wood in the interior, all of the steel nuts and bolts, and resealed everything below the waterline with 5200. While trailering the boat I have noticed the motor (1989 Evinrude 120) bouncing on the bumps. After using the boat for two years I had to retighten the motor mount bolts and the bolts that tie the stringers to the transom. They were all loose. When they tightened up, they squeezed the transom in. I believe the cheap ply wood in the transom is rotten and when I tightened the bolts it crushed the wood. I can?t access the wood because it is incased in aluminum. My thought on how to save the already rotten wood was to drill holes from the top of the transom through the aluminum top sheet all the way through the wood and out the aluminum bottom sheet. I would drill a hole every half inch. I would put two large spot lights on the transom when I put the boat away for the winter. This would heat the wood up and over the winter dry it all out. In the spring I would tape the bottom holes then fill the whole transom with either Git-rot or a penetrating epoxy. That should stiffen up the transom with out having to cut the whole back of the boat off. Do you guys think this would work?
