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Originally Posted by plusone876
. . . The cracking above the deck line is only the paint peeling away. There is no cracking of the actual transom above the deck or below as far as I can tell. The flexing of the sides is only in the stern but stops about 1' from the transom. Suggestions? A guy in town did the restoration, maybe I can reach out to him.
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If it's just thick paint that didn't adhere well, then maybe it is just cosmetic, but I'd be inclined to grind off the paint in that radius with a Dremel tool sanding drum to see if there are any cracks under it!
I noticed what looks like a scupper going out thru the transom, which tells me the original aft seats and splashwell were removed, original vertical scuppers removed/plugged and new cockpit sole extended all the way back to transom. Sometimes most of the interior of a boat is gutted as part of a repair like that, so hard to tell how much of the original liner is still there. If it's done by a guy that doesn't know what he's doing, it's easy to remove some important structural elements! A pic of the entire aft cockpit of the boat would give us a better idea of how much structure is there.
So is there noticeable flexing of the hull sides and/or cap in the back of boat if you push on the hull sides? Were those outside cracks there when you bought the boat?