new seacraft owner

[WildBill]

You can use a composite or marine grade plywood. The composite's I researched, Coosa Bluewater was about $225 a sheet as compaired to $72.00 for 3/4''marine grade plywood. You want to bring the new glass to as close to the original thickness as what your replacing. You need to decide whether your going to replace it from the inside or outside. You can probably count on using about 30 feet of glass for the transom, a little less if your just doing what's there. I used 1708. You'll use a little more for re-tabbing the stringers (from the inside) and 3 or 4 layers if you decide to fill in the space on the outside of the transom. Depending on what or how far you decide to go also will dictate how much resin you'll need. You need to decide whether your going to use poly or epoxy. The epoxy will make a better secondary bond but it run's about $54.00 a gallon. I used about 5 gallons of epoxy on my 20's transom.

You can do a title search here on the tool bar for transom rebuilds under search and find all the answers your looking for.

good luck and welcome aboard WildBill