215 sundowner transom

[happy cruiser]

89 four winns 215 sundowner with rotted transom engine beds seem solid is there a way to replace transom without totally gutting the boat and if the engine beds are rotted can the tops be cutt off and new wood blocks be inserted? Haven't pulled engine yet just getting my ducks in a row. Thanks all

 

[MikeSchinlaub]

Nope. The only way will be to have the motor pulled, get in there, and get messy.

As for the mounts, also no. You'll have to cut the glass away from them, remove any remaining material, bed new ones in resin putty, and glass them to the hull and stringers. This makes them part of the structure.

The way you suggest, you would have a really hard time cleaning the old material out, and still have to glass back over the tops anyway. You would also have a hard time being sure you don't have big air pockets in your bedding material.

It's gonna be a big, messy job. No way around it.

 

[Pmt133]

IF it is only the transom... I suppose you could do it from the outside. I wouldn't and chances are the rest needs to be done anyway. But just a thought.

 

[Scott Danforth]

The transom rotted after the stringers rotted

Replacing the transom from the outside is 2x the work for 1/2 as good a job plus you still need to pull the boat apart to take care of the stringers, saturated foam and the soon to be rotten floor