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

[mike77v20]

thinking about it now you have a good idea on the simple floor and that cuddy step is kinda in the way from port to starboard side and if i wanna fish that bad and keep them i have the big a** white cooler that hold a ton of stuff so it would be a good idea for me to do that

[Kracker Jack]

Now ya thinking!!!!! Its a project and we are not proffesionals keep it simple. Look at some of reelapeelins swivel seats mounted on raised storage boxes its a "reel" cool setup!! lol!!! Make your floor continues port to starboard all the way across. big cooler in back with cushion there ya go. just my 2 cents. Im building a fishing machine not a foo foo boat.

[mike77v20]

i was gonna make some storage trays under the passenger side dash into the cuddy i would do away with the cuddy but keeping it for the kids to have a spot to rest and for storage of other boat stuff the under the seat thing is cool to i can always trim down my mounts already have seats taht are in real good condition and mount them on top

[Kracker Jack]

IMO the way you have your floor cut out already you dont need to remove the whole cap. just control cut with a grinder and remove the first foot and half of cap from the rear. Remove the rub rail and cap screws then just remove that portion. then put it back after transom is done then glass the cap back in place.

[mike77v20]

you cant see it in the pics i have removed all the rub rail and screws whoever did it before did a crappy job the cap is cracked a little and the screws were just held by the shell so im gonna put a 2x2 all the way around the inside of hull for better hold power of the screws me and my brother slid the cap foward two feet to get access to transom and once i get me dremel for christmasand get the crappy corners smoothed up ima do the transom and slide cap back into place and finish out the rebuilding of the floor

[Kracker Jack]

Once again keep doing research on the seacraft and mako forums. and on a site called THE HULL TRUTH. Im wellv20cc on the hull truth forum. Take your time just remember you have all winter. Im taking my time on mine because I dont know what the hell im doing!!!LOL!!!

[mike77v20]

same here i have a note book i write everything down in and ill check out those sites also and keep up with my pics