transom repair question

[Ikan Besar]

other routes that people have taken include bolting an aluminum plate of varying sizes to the outside of the transom, mounting a bracket on an already wet transom (actually promoted in some bracket company brochures), "drying" an already rotten transom and simply rebolting the engine on, only replacing the actual wet areas, etc.

As was mentioned above, many of the members on this site are trying to make their boats better than they even started out and therefore the idea of pouring in a chemical to mask the effects of wet/rot is something that isn't always seen as the preferable route to dealing with the problem. Will it work? maybe, maybe not. However, will YOU be happy with that solution? that is a question that only you can answer.

I will say that when the occasional boat gets listed for sale on here that claims to have a "professionally dried out transom", a number of us get a good chuckle out of that description [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

I don't know how old your boat is, but by definition, any "Potter" built SeaCraft has a transom that is 24 years old at the very least. While my '71's transom was not in that bad a shape, there comes a peace of mind knowing that a new one will very likely give me another 30 years of use....if I'm around to use it that long.