Cap separation

[Bushwacker]

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.

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?