Transom Dust....

[oldbluesplayer]

Looking close at that pic, I'm surprised how flat the inner transom is, given the wood condition -

my soggy transom resulted in some serious glass deformation at the lower engine bolt hole - they must have re-tightened the engine mount bolts every year, and put a squish into it. The upper holes aren't bad, but they were reinforced by the added thickness of the splashwell. Looks like I'm gong to have to reinforce the lower bolt hole area, and then level the inner transom, before I can go into new transom layup.

speaking of layups - you mentioned 3/8" ply ? What's your layup schedule going to be? cruising thru past threads, I've seen 1/4 luan, 3x 1/2 and 2x 3/4 ply - how much cured thickness do you get out of the glass layer your putting in there ?

thanks

Bill

[Finster]

You can really put in any conbination you want. The fact is, if you take mesurements around the cut, you'll find that it flucuates +- 3/16".