transom repair

[Kracker Jack]

Mike as you can see our boats are identical or....was!!! I had the step down into the cuddy as you see in the old picture with the 2 boxes following to the stern. My picture has the console in the boat hiding the box behind the console. The step down into the cuddy i cut out the part of the stepdown that extended into the floor and glassed in a new bulk head there to act as a ledger for my floor and a the back wall for what I have coverted to a upper deck storage box Im going to drill a hole on the backside of my new piece ply wood and put a drain hole into the bilge. Cut 2 or 3 inches around your boxes the depth of the floor and remove them. when you remove them clean them up and prep them so they can be reglued with thickened resin to your new floor and glassed over when you reglass your floor. Remove the old core material from around the lip of the box just leaving glass. Im not putting any boxes back in my floor Im gonna keep my deck simple. I am gonna convert one of my demo'd fish boxes into an semi oversized motor well in the back and thats it. Maybe you do the same to keep the boat deck simple also and just keep the step down to the cuddy. Once again I am new at this and maybe someone else has some other tips to help you