somebody did some transom work before I bought it. Its one of the suspect things on the boat. There is a step down but its exactly 25" to keel. I'm looking at some of the pics in the '73 catalog and it really looks similar to those. Only someone installed two stainless steel plates inside and out that the motor bolts through. I'm really not totally sure how to check to see if the transom is waterlogged/rotted etc. It doesn't seem to move when underway but I'm not real happy about finding out that way either.

Mike