are you planning to go back with the IO or a bracket with an OB. the transom looks a little wet from looking at your pictures have you tapped on the stringers you can see from the engine compartment to see if they are solid? The one thing I found with mine is that they did not use any mat fiberglass under the heavy wolven glass and it was all lifted from the wood which could trap water. One thing that I was impressed with was the hull was all hand layed with heavy fibergalss wolven cloth and not just a sprayed chopped glass boat. With the long runs of wolven cloth makes the boat a lot stronger by distributing the shock through out the long strands in the cloth.