I give in

[timd]

I did mine fromthe outside, and since I was raising the transom height to 25", I was not interested in saving the outer skin. I used a Skil saw and cut all the way around the perimeter. I left a 1" lip at the bottom. Then I pried off the skin and did the checker board thing with the saw. Mine was so rotten that in places the wood was gone or just fell out. The inner skin on mine was also very thin. I used 6 sheets of 1/4" luan plywood soaked in slow epoxy, with a layer of 1708 cloth between each layer of the plywood. I layed it up in one ay after having all the wood and glass cut, and then clamped it all togther with 2x4s. It makes a totally bullet-proof transom. I finshed with 3 layers of the cloth and tied it in to the hull sides. I you re-use the outer skin, you will still need to grind back the hull sides and transom to layer cloth around the edges to give it integrity.