I cut my cap where your tie off rope goes through the cap when I did my transom. Then a few months later I removed the entire remainder of the cap to re do the lamination in the cap so I guess I did both. When I put the cap back together again I just glassed where the cuts were and enforced it on the inside with extra glass and epoxy the cap doesn’t move and the whole thing is screwed into the inner liner of the hull. I haven’t had any cracks or any problems at all where I cut the cap. When you remove either the whole cap or cut you remove the two storage boxed on both sides of the boat which proves more than enough room to do the transom. The only thing left to remove is the splash well area by doing that you have great access, if you have the older potters you will need to remove the live well as well.
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