[Bushwacker]

Welcome to the site! Carla called me the other night to tell me about someone she had just met with a red Seafari and it sounds like you're the one! This group is one great bunch of folks and I'm sure you'll enjoy meeting them at Carla's in early April. Will look forward to meeting you!

Don Herman, who's the moderator of this repair thread, is a professional fiberglass guy who filled in my transom and installed one of his fiberglass brackets. My transom was ok, but I think he prefers doing a transom repair from the outside as it's much easier and quicker that way; shouldn't be any difference in strength. The trick is to leave about 3" of original skin all the way around the edge so you have a good reference for fairing the new surface to.