good input, guys - making progress-
went at it last night - got a 1" spade drill for the power drill and drilled out as much as I could, then went at it with hammer and chisel - got it about 3/4 done, should finish that tonight.
It's time for pictures - have to get some tonight, and get them downloaded for y'all
Rather than through bolting the layup, I'm letting my engineer mind wander a bit, as I do the cleanup, thinking about rigging a hinged press - clamp a bar at the top of the transom, a couple horizontal 2x4 arms rotating on that, extending out, and then some hinged arms down to the transom area, with cross braces to go up against the transom layers as I install them, then hang some weight off the end of the horizontal arms, get some mechanical advantage multiplying the weight and applying inward force to the pieces as I do the layup - if I do it I'll shoot some pix.
Bill
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