Anyone ever fill in a notched transom?

[Franco]

I gotta tell ya, If you can figure out how to do it, do it. Us i/o guys and guys like MJ with brackets are really lucky. Last wednesday a couple of guys were out on the Indian River and were towing a sailboat for a friend. Some severe weather blew up quickly. The sailboat got stuck some how and these guys were trying to pull it free. They had a following sea behind them, a wave came over the transom and swamped the boat. Luckily they grabbed some pfd's prior to going in the drink. The rescue helicopter had a difficult time doing the rescue, but they survived. I know they weren't the sharpest knife in the drawer. If they would have cut loose from the sail boat and and swung around to a quatering sea they would not have lost thier boat. In the last few weeks though, 3 guys were returning from a fishing trip in a 20 footer, a wave came over the transom and sunk the boat, 2 died and one survived. In Virginia, a friend of mine that I grew up with was fishing the barrier islands on the eastern shore of the chesapeake bay, somehow they got swamped and 2 guys died there. I believe some basic seamanship and using good judgement would have helped alot. But a full transom is less likely to be swamped from behind. IMO I would never, ever consider a boat with a notched transom or one of those ugly euro transoms. When it comes time to repower mine, I'm gonna pick MJ's brain and hang a bracket with an outboard. Just my opinion. I don't want to hear any bad news about my friends on this forum