Seafari transom outboard rebuild

[Bushwacker]

Replied to your PM - will post transom fill photos later tonight.

[jboatdoc]

New problem as of tonight, drilled a couple of test holes to check for dampness and its wet. Now I need to figure out weather to rebuild the transom from the inside or the outside. what do you guys think of that pour in transom stuff?

[Bushwacker]

Sorry to hear about your wet transom! Does it flex if you stand on lower unit? One advantage of a bracket is that they spread the engine load across entire transom vs. conventional mount putting all the load in small area of about 1 sq. ft.

Don Herman does transoms from outside - just leave ~3" of original skin all the way around edge so you'll have something to fair the new skin to. I've heard about the pour-in stuff but don't know much about it, or how you'd get the old wet wood out - maybe from the top with a chainsaw! I'd send Don a PM about it.

[jboatdoc]

Well my transom is comming ot fantastic, When I figure out how to post Pics I'll put some up. Hey bushwacker, in one of the pics it looks like the engine well is still in place then in another it looks like they glassed the entire inside of the transom. Which did they do?

[Bushwacker]

Hey bushwacker, in one of the pics it looks like the engine well is still in place then in another it looks like they glassed the entire inside of the transom. Which did they do?

Don filled in the cutout first and then cut out the splashwell and ground the aft edge flush with the transom before he gelcoated everything. He used a batten across the top of the existing transom to get a nice smooth arc in the filler section, so it blends in well and looks like it was originally built that way.