This is the transom boards cut to size and laminated together. As you can see the plan is to run the transom at full height as the motor well is being cut out and an aluminium motor pod going on.
So here's the transom devoid of plywood and now with 4 layers of glass, 2 csm and 2 double bias (biaxial?) with slightly progressively larger layers each time and a final layer of our Aussie equivalent of your 1708 in a 200 mm or 8 inch band around the entire transom to hull transition.
Hello Iboaters
Its been a while but I've been able to put some time into the old girl over the last month. I've actually started putting fibreglass back into the old girl...that means I'v spent a lot of time grinding the old glass ...... If you can see there's a fresh line of glass about a...
view from above the old transom with all the ply gone. Lots of mould and discoloration from some sort of dirt between the layers of glass that weren't really properly bonded to the original glass from the factory.
So some history as I see it. This was the second transom and the second floor...
So here's the transom completely devoid of all the rotten plywood.
The entire boat appears to be made completely of csm with next to zero 1708. Naturally I'll be adding some strength to everything that I do.
Only Timber left is the remnants of the floor (see the plywood edge by the battery...
Transom plywood and gel coat skin removed . Just a hot wet mess. Water oozing out as I cut the gel coat in the boat.
I used a diamond blade on the grinder with the vacuum sucking up 99% of the fiber glass dust as I went.
As you see I did have some good gloves on. Other PPE included quality...
Seriously long piece that came off . I'm beginning to wonder if the old girl was only a couple of trips away from falling apart!!!
Cheers from the Sunshine Coast in sunny Queensland OZ
