Question for Hermco, and other "glass masters"

[tohatsu]

Hi Folks, a question here

I'm not a professional glasser by any means, but I'm getting better, mainly keeping some of my commercial clamming buddies boats afloat. I've done a few transoms,a couple floors, even built a decent two seat pilot house with windows. So far so good.

Okay, it's pretty common to see guys take a rotten transom, fill it up, and hang a bracket on it. But, what about going the "other way?" What about a bracket boat, removing the bracket, and notching the transom for a 25 inch motor?

Here's the deal. An old timer we know and love is now pretty disabled. A friend of ours donated an older Dusky 19/20 footer to him, and it's got a bracket. With that 200 hanging out there, the boat sits awful low in the stern. In fact, if you put a guy in the back it starts to look silly.

Don asked me if we could take the Bracket off, notch the transom and hang the motor "normal". I told him I've not seen it done, but I also thought that if the transom's got enough "oomph" to support that weight hanging some 20 plus inches off it, it shouldn't take much in the way of reinforcing to make it a good "notch" boat.

I'm willing to take a good shot at it if you experienced guys think it's doable. Any suggestions, or comments?

Thanks much
Bob