Re: Here are some comments on Seacast..
Franki, I thought you were the Seacast employee? LOL, just kidding. Gosh, I couldnt help but notice that seacast1 refrained from addressing my particular concerns. I will be curious to see how your transom goes, I hope it works well.<br /><br />As far as time goes, 8 hours? for this job? count me as VERY sceptical. Just some words of experience: You are going to remove the transom without removing the deck? (add lots of time)<br /><br />You plan on saving the inner Transom fiberglass? forgitaboutit, In most cases it is just a single layer or two of glass and resin. The time spent saving it is lost by having to work around it.<br /><br />I personally, did not remove the outer Hull glass, why ruin the looks of your boat? A chainsaw works great to remove the wood and preserve the glass, It should be the first tool of choice, I had no intention of saving the inner glass, as it is only for looks IMHO, and would have greatly impaired the removal of the rotten wood.<br /><br />Question: When you finally get below the finished floor surface, how well will the Seacast bond to the end of the wet stringers? Oh ya, odds are, your stringers are wet also. Dont mean too sound so negative, but this happens more often than not.<br /><br />At this point a decision must be made, tear up the floor and replace the stringers? Ouch, time to buy all of the materials and tools required for fiberglass and WOOD bonding, In hindsight, you would have saved time and money by just planning on replacing all of the wood in the first place.<br /><br />Been there an done that, however, never tried Seacast, I hope that you will take the time to give a full account of your experience with Seacast, so that we can all learn from it, I really do hope it goes well for you.<br /><br />And finally, I live in the Pacific Northwest and fungus grows on live and dead trees all of the time, dont sweat it.<br /><br />P.S. Just for giggles, click on my profile, my particular motor is mounted to ONE layer of 3/4" plywood, there is enough horsepower on this boat to lift it completely into the air at 10mph over a 2' wave. Not one spider web crack! 21 foot boat, Motor: 300hp, 565 lbs, set 17" back from transom, the key in my case, is 1/2" aluminum 90 deg. angle brackets bolted through the floor stringers and transom, (2 reqd.) installed from factory. The stringers are approx. 2x6 lumber encased in glass. The angles are approx 24" x 24" x 3" x 1/2" thick.<br /><br />Regards, Mike
at least the winblows box has a linux server between it and the internet.. 
