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Today we mixed up resin and liberally coated the back and sides of the new wood as well as the inside of the transom and clamped it in place. Started clamping from the bottom and squeezed up, got a nice even ooze from the top seam. Pretty confident we will get a good bond between the transom...

I am using poly, I have had good results with the Bondo Resin I can get at Walmart. As you can see in the first pic, I had already done a "reinforcement" that worked great until I backed into the hill...I blame the fire ants, they are the reason I was moving the boat without tilting up the motor.

Thanks. Dave made the giant clamps yesterday, the rest are his welding clamps, we used about 1/3 of what he has. In all my studies, it seems that using non marine plywood is what to use if you are fully encapsulating with resin/glass. The plain plywood will soak in more resin.

Good deal. I really think that you are in for a treat, it will be like getting a new boat.

I knew that the transom on my little Dixie fishing boat would need to be replaced in the near future, well about 2 months ago I expedited the inevitable by backing the lower unit of the outboard into a small hill resulting in the sound of a breaking transom. I thought about a pourable transom...

It's a 72. My grandfather bought it in 73, I got it from him in 82 for my first car. The open area behind it is where I am getting ready to build my garage/shop so I can start a frame off restoration...maybe, I really like using it as a truck.

My fishing buddies and I caught a few nice one's this past year. The first couple pics were last week. Some of the pics are more for the art of the pic than the size of the fish.

I don't really consider what the government or the insurance company has to say about my boat, but I pay pretty close attention to what the guys who built the boat say about how much power she can handle.

A dusting down here brings the world to a halt...and the traffic cause some goofball thought he could go wide open in his fancy 4x4 and flipped it over in the road.

I guess it's what I get for making fun of you guys winterizing your boats...had a little snow, sleet, freezing rain over the weekend, and now lows in the 20's all week. We got an inch or two before it turned back to rain and washed it away, just north of here, 25-30 miles, they got 8-10 inches.

Hmmm, lots of variables that you can adjust there. I seem to remember exploring that years ago, but forgot about it. Thanks for the reminder.

Between the box and a ducer it would cost me over a grand, guess I will stick with looking down only.

Sweet!

Prop's in the mail.

Congrats on the "new" boat and welcome to the site. I am assuming that the boat has a 20 inch transom, my V20 does too and I have run it for 10+ years in lakes and the sea and never had any problems with water coming into the boat over the transom. That being said, if you are going to run the...

Ah, thanks. That explains why I couldn't find a sidescan transducer that would hook to the unit.

I hadn't even thought about the motor being in the way of a sidescan transducer on the transom, it does seem like it one side would get blocked. In am trying to figure out if the working unit on my "new" boat supports sidescan. It is a Garmin 741xs and on the unit itself it has the option for...

Awesome! Anyone we know?