I'm really starting to hate this boat but, I'm going to keep on working on it. The transom has a thin layer of resin or possibly fiberglass still holding the splash well to it. Got a 12" metal blade for my reciprocating saw and that gives me enough flexibility to keep the blade curved and turned away from the splashwell. This way I'm not cutting into my splashwell and ruing it and making more work for myself. Unfortunately my Best friend who rents a room downstairs from me had the urge to work on the boat today. He has a lot of knowledge about wooden boat construction and so on but he made more work for me later. I have erceted a pipe carport over the boat and was using the overhead structure to lift the deck with block and tackle. Well, he crawled under the splash well and looked at the transom and concluded that only 6" of bonded fiberglass and splashwell was holding the transom and splashwell/deck together and he figured he could "POP" it apart by pulling it apart with the block and tackle. Well he wound up bending my top support and cracking the fiberglass about 4" around the corner of where the rear seat well meets the splashwell. It has not been a good day but, I'll get over it. A little safety note for those new and not yet involved in working on old fiberglass boats, put something down on the old floor after you have removed the old carpet. When your laying down and trying to cut the transmo free from the splash well or anyother time you lay down on the old fiberglass your going to wind up with a lot of fiberglass fibers in your skin and it will irratate the heck out of you for not thinking about it in the first place.
