Transom pictures
 

Ok I did it I pulled my motor today to start digging out the transom. I have read I believe every thread on it I could find and most of it seems pretty straight forward. I would like to put a bracket on the back and fill in the transom area and believe the bracket would mount just below where the notch is so it would be strong enough, then I could just fill in the rest.

Here are some pics I took today.

Screw driver went in a good 5 inches easily.
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Looks like you are on your way now.

Good luck with it.

If you want to add a bracket you will need to mount it at the height of the motor not just were you feel like it.

What size is your motor?? 20" or 25"? 25 is best as the shorter motor tends to get swamped more.
A 25" motor needs the bracket bolted at least 25" above the bottom of the boat, and add a inch of height for every foot back you go.

CC boats are harder to do then cuddys as they seem to be *** heavy later, Get the shortest bracket you can and still get the motor all the way up.

I would take this time to build the transom up, by filing in the cut out for the outboard, this will give you a nice full transom for the back splash. and the room you will need to add the bracket.

Also were you the guy asking about relocating the gas tank to the front?? (I get confused who is who) If so this is a good thing to do here on a CC to get some weight forward, so it counters the weight of the outboard that is now 2 feet behind the boat.

Good Luck.

I am not sure what motor yet as I will probably repower. I am definately going to fill in the back transom as you suggest. I was thinking about Nidacore for the bottom half of the transom and bringing it up to 25 for strength then I would imagine ply and glass above that or could I just pour the whole thing but that might be to expensive and heavy and I would have to glass it anyway. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

No, that was not me asking about the tank. I have a 78 cuddy and I actually have a 25 gal. reserve under the main floor panel between the front seats.

As long as the transom area were the motor is going to be is all solid I am sure you will be fine with ply and glass.

A cuddy is much better for this conversion as they are a bit bow heavy any way.

I would be VERY LEARY about redoing a transom using two different materials...Nidacore on bottom and wood on top sounds like a combo for problems down the road...I'd chose one material and go w/that, top to bottom...

I worked on it today and removed half the wood and noticed its not that much more to pour in. Of course I say that now I have not purchased the Nidacore. I really want the bracket but they are expensive and I don't know if I will get that much more room out of the inside with the way the splash well is laid off. However if I stumble across a nice bracket in the next couple weeks I will grab it up.

Lots of brackets for sale just need to look around. Try you local mariner, they hve take offs for sale from time to time. Thats were I got mine when I did it.

If I were going to do a OB bracket boat, I'd start with an I/O boat. I'd leace teh splash well like it is, repair the existing transom with Arjay, get the boat back on the water and fish it

I think you are right I need to get fishing and that is what I am going to do, I am going to bring it up to a 25 though, it looks as if that is what it was to start with and it was cut down.

My son wants to start a project soon so I will wait and do a bracket with him.