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I was thinking of drilling a new drain hole in the center at the lowest point,and leaving the keel stringer stop just short of the transom.In this way i don't have to worry about a limber hole clogging up.Do you think the stringer has to be tied in?
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I might catch hell from you glassmasters but I had a discussion with Mr Potter on this a few years ago. Don't worry too much about that center stringer. Your masive box stingers/grid system give you all the hull support you need. That keel piece running a few feet up was put there in the early 70's to beef up the keel for the roller type trailers that were being used back then. Your not providing much hull support with that thing in place.
My '78 didn't even have one, just a half of PVC pipe glassed in to defect and channel bilge water aft
In this shot looking aft from the back of the fuel tank, you can see the PVC Pipe I cut away to install my thru hull transducer.
In this shot Mike @ Wildfire cut it completely out during the transom rebuild.
