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Originally Posted by nepatsfanatic
I saw a guy somewhere who did a great job using ply strips cut to the thickness of the transom and stacked them laid flat one piece at a time using epoxy. From what I've seen its unusual, but sounds feasible, the guy is a structural engineer and figured this would be strong, and I guess retains properties of original ply transom without having to tear whole boat apart.
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Laminate structures are stronger than solids. That's why plywood is so strong. By crossing the grains of the different layers you achieve tremendous strength. An 8 layer laminate with the grains all going in the same direction will be almost 50% stronger than a solid block of wood of the same dimension, but cross the grains in that same laminate and you get a board that is over 15 times stronger than a solid.
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