Transom and stringer replacement!

[Piedog]

Could someone please give me an answer on this. I have under taken replacing all the wood in my bass boat. the question I have should I coat all my wood with the epoxy risen before I fiberglass them in , meaning the floor both top and bottom and the stringers and transom!

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: Transom and stringer replacement!

I did mine like that. I coated them with resin then installed them and then fiberglassed. The transom got coated as I glassed it in.

 

[jonesg]

Re: Transom and stringer replacement!

My stringers are 20 inches tall x 9 feet long so I glassed them before installing, its a lot easier on the back anyway. Just set up some trash cans and use a roller or plastic squeegee, trying to do vertical glasswork whilst on your knees is not fun. If you only have short stringers then its fine.

One thing, if you pre-resin the wood it might need sanding as bumps can pop up on the wood as stress is relieved by the resin.

 

[ondarvr]

Re: Transom and stringer replacement!

Could someone please give me an answer on this. I have under taken replacing all the wood in my bass boat. the question I have should I coat all my wood with the epoxy risen before I fiberglass them in , meaning the floor both top and bottom and the stringers and transom!

It depends on what you mean.

all wood should have a coat of whatever resin you are using applied to and then let it harden before doing any glass work on it.
most of the time its much easier to put them in place before doing it though.

If you mean using just a coat of resin and no glass on some portions of the wood, then no, it needs glass for it to hold up long term.

Read some of the other threads on the same subject and you'll get a better idea of what to do.

 

[erikgreen]

Re: Transom and stringer replacement!

Slight modification to what ondarvr said above:

I like to coat the wood with resin first and let it tack up, basically I want it to get to the point where it keeps the wood from soaking up a lot of resin from the glass I apply.

The idea from my point of view is to keep the wood from soaking up resin and creating resin starved areas in the glass when it's applied. Obviously it also seals the wood against water somewhat.

I prefer to work when it's still tacky since that means I get a better bond between the wood with resin and the glass that comes after.

Erik