I’ve also been patching holes and doing some glassing inside the boat. I patched the holes in the coaming:
I patched all the holes through the engine compartment bulkhead and glassed both sides with a layer of 1.5oz. mat and a layer of 1808.
I patched the holes for the through-transom exhaust.
As you can see from this picture, The glass on the inside of the transom wasn’t thick enough to prevent crushing of the plywood core from the through-bolts holding the swim platform brackets.
To fix this, I overdrilled all the through-bolt holes for the swim platform brackets and the I/O transom assembly and then filled them with a mixture of epoxy resin, erosil, and wood flour. I’ll redrill the holes through the epoxy plugs when I’m done with the transom work. Here are the holes drilled out and ready for filling:
And the holes filled and the inside of the transom glassed with a layer of 1.5oz mat and two layers of 1808:
I used peel ply over the center of the transom so I won’t have to sand before painting the bilge or tabbing in the stringers. The peel ply peels off and leaves a surface with a fine weave pattern that provides good mechanical keying.
Dave