Transom rebuild outsid skin bad

[hiliner222]

Ok got the sefari off the transport trailer and on to it's own with it overhanging room to work transom. Now i have a Seacraft question. Upon transom inspection mine is a flat across from port to strb. Where i'm told this transom has been redone before I would like to make sure this is the way it's suppose to be or do the original transoms have a curvature to them from port to strb.? I have no way to tell or compare to another Seafari.

[hermco]

Originally flat.

[hiliner222]

Thanks Hermco, that makes it a little easier. Removed a portion of the transom today. It's like opening up a time capsul, haha. I found two copper ring nails through the transom with the head just inside the inner skin facing out. May have held a template or something. Also confirmed a 4 stringer hull. See Pics The filler in the gaps at the strakes between the plywood and strakes is like a sawdust and glue mixture, weird stuff.

[hermco]

Resin, sawdust, and a little cabosil makes a great filler putty! Many years ago a boat shop I worked at was bonding the liners in with vermiculite and resin putty.

[hiliner222]

Yeah i have removed all that fill. and a good potion of the transom, less the inside skin. progress pics. There were copper ringnails holding the sections of plywood together in the transom.

[hiliner222]

Gaining

[Bushwacker]

Scott,

Looks like you have room to cross your scupper drain lines before you run them out the transom! I think the gas tank support deck (and maybe the tank) have been replaced. The original tank support was 1/4" plywood.

[hiliner222]

Originally Posted by Bushwacker

Scott,

Looks like you have room to cross your scupper drain lines before you run them out the transom! I think the gas tank support deck (and maybe the tank) have been replaced. The original tank support was 1/4" plywood.

Thats the front 4cyl 120 hp engine mount support, it's behind and abutts the tank. I't glassed with roven and fairly thick. The tank is fiberglass and need to be replaced as the ethenol fuel will break down the glass. I like your idea about tieing in the scuppers to one line if i even have scuppers. their so low at the watterline i may dump into bildge and let pump do it. I don't moore it, i trailer it so wont be a problem. If the deck was higher. I havent decided yet, still thinking on that one. But if i do i'll do the crossover for sure.

[hiliner222]

Cut grind, clean preping for transom install. Leaving the upper section of skin to keep the form. As it is the weight of boat on the trailer with both skins cut out the sides drop approx. 1/4" so the outside of the hull need to be blocked up a tad to get the same form it had. I took a measurement before i cut the skin out from the top of the skin to the keel 37". The after measurement was 36 3/4".