[Miles Offshore]

Hi Otterly, welcome to the board!!! I was thinking that with an outdrive on your boat minor wetness/moisture in your transom is not really a problem. All the stress is in the outgrive to bellhousing to motor connections leaving very little on the transom. I have an inboard and have approximately 1/16" of wetness down low and fairly high(bout a foot or so vertical in my transom and it doesn't concern me a bit. Whenever I repower it again I will reevaluate it but its not like having a pair of Honda's hanging off of it. There is a 74 i/o 23 at my pier also.