Transom rebuild outsid skin bad

[fdheld34]

Don...your moving to Fiji or just going on a vacation????!!!!

-Fred

[hiliner222]

Originally Posted by hermco

Boat is obviously un-fixable, I will be glad to save you the trouble and dispose of it for you.

Ha Ha, I'll have to disagree, nice try Looks like just matt in the pic huh? We'll find out when i tear into it. Thanks Blue for that info/link. You guys are a hoot. love this forum.

[hiliner222]

You guys are right, no woven just a few layers of matt. And the thickness is about 1/4" as in the pic compared to the pencil. Anyone ever had the transom outer skin apart on a Moesly? I think this boat is a real early one. I can't tell if the transom has been redone for sure but it doesn't look so if i had to guess. Still working on the year of it.

[Entourage]

Originally Posted by hiliner222

Nice build threads Entourage and fdheld, thanks but both jobs you were able to leave a small lip around the outside edge to keep the form and strength. Mine is cracked right to the corner so it makes it more of a challenge to me. The corners are the strength and form so to redo the corners the right way is where i need some pointers/steps before i hack the inside away, maybe i should leave it intact. But if i do that i wont be able to tab the outside new skin very far into the sides or bottom for strength. Actually yours Entourage is pretty close to flush at the bottom isn't it.

Yes very close on the bottom I overlapped at bottom of keel about 8 inches.

[hiliner222]

Originally Posted by Entourage

Yes very close on the bottom I overlapped at bottom of keel about 8 inches.

So you wrapped around and adhered to hull bottom. Didn't that make like a hump at the end of the bottom? or did you pre grind it out?

[hiliner222]

Originally Posted by hermco

Boat is obviously un-fixable, I will be glad to save you the trouble and dispose of it for you.

Your not getting my Moesly Seafari, will post in general why we believe it's a Moesly.

[hermco]

Originally Posted by fdheld34

Don...your moving to Fiji or just going on a vacation????!!!!

-Fred

Oh yeah, Fiji just as soon as I win the lottery.

[hermco]

Originally Posted by hiliner222

Your not getting my Moesly Seafari, will post in general why we believe it's a Moesly.

[thehermit]

Originally Posted by hiliner222

You guys are right, no woven just a few layers of matt. And the thickness is about 1/4" as in the pic compared to the pencil. Anyone ever had the transom outer skin apart on a Moesly? I think this boat is a real early one. I can't tell if the transom has been redone for sure but it doesn't look so if i had to guess. Still working on the year of it.

Mr Moesly used to run around the factory and drill holes in new boats just to double check hull thickness. Or so the story goes. No way he let a Seafari go out with a transom laid up with 2 layers of mat and no structural glass.

Rip it all out and fix it .

.....and post lots of pictures !

[Blue_Heron]

Originally Posted by hiliner222

... Anyone ever had the transom outer skin apart on a Moesly? I think this boat is a real early one. I can't tell if the transom has been redone for sure but it doesn't look so if i had to guess.

Regardless whether it's a Moesly or a Potter, the original transom would have been alternating layers of mat and roving. That's definitely not the original outer skin. Only an inexperienced and poorly informed amateur would use an all mat layup on a transom laminate.
Dave