What does it mean to "cap" a boat?

[oldboat1]

You can also replace a transom working from the outside. Cut away the glass around the perimeter, a couple of inches from the edge. You may find that the entire piece can be removed, then replaced over the new wood. If you have a glass pocket, you need to remove the damaged wood piece by piece. Replacement doesn't have to be in a single piece. You can patch in the wood, overlapping the pieces. Thickness is double 3/4 inch ply. I like to use a screw and glue (epoxy) method.

You will be able to access stringer damage when the transom is opened up. If not too serious, new wood can be sistered in where required.

 

[Scott Danforth]

I've read about the possibility of having rotten stringers along with a rotten transom. Would that turn the project into several thousand or is it a relatively easy fix?

generally if you have a rotten transom, you also have rotten stringers, and water soaked foam.

 

[kcassells]

I've read about the possibility of having rotten stringers along with a rotten transom. Would that turn the project into several thousand or is it a relatively easy fix?

Their is no easy fix here. TOTAL REHAB. I don't know why these guys are playing the just do the transom fix. and sending pretty pics.
You wont post your own pics leaves me to say this is a useless thread.

 

[great_white_fisherman]

Their is no easy fix here. TOTAL REHAB. I don't know why these guys are playing the just do the transom fix. and sending pretty pics.
You wont post your own pics leaves me to say this is a useless thread.

I did post a pic...it's on the first page. I can't post anything else because you'd just see the same thing but with a motor attached. I haven't begun the project yet. I'm looking for tips on possible outcomes BEFORE I start.

 

[kcassells]

I meant a pic of your boat is all.

 

[Baylinerchuck]

Absolutely a total rehab like kcassells said. Unfortunately the only way to do this right from what you are describing is to pop the cap and replace the transom wood. I mean you can always take a sawzall to the back of your boat and do it that way, it is your boat after all.....but I would never recommend it.

as far as the deck and stringers I don’t know. Is the cap also the deck and glued down to the stringers? That would be really difficult. Some actual pictures of your boat taken from inside might be helpful.

good luck.

 

[great_white_fisherman]

Alright, I'll get some inside pics tomorrow

 

[oldboat1]

These pronouncements on radical rehab are no more useful than a completely minimalist approach. You have to see the stringers and do some picking and punching with a screwdriver (or similar) before you know what you have. If you work at replacing the transom, you will see the condition of the stringers very early on.

 

[great_white_fisherman]

 

[great_white_fisherman]

What would be the stringers? It looks like the only thing attached to the transom is the braces

 

[GSPLures]

To the outside of your braces where the floor is higher

 

[great_white_fisherman]

Well...in that case the starboard side is definitely rotten because there is a weak area from where the vro tank was bolted in and the area underneath is in bad shape. So no doubt that stringer is for sure rotten.....

 

[kcassells]

Now we can help answer some questions. Thanks for them. Take a couple standing back some so we can we see how your top, transom, gunnels, sides all tie into the rear area. Then we can CAP the boat.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Now we can help answer some questions. Thanks for them. Take a couple standing back some so we can we see how your top, transom, gunnels, sides all tie into the rear area. Then we can CAP the boat.

you mean uncap the boat, or put a cap in it........

 

[kcassells]

IDK? ASk him.
I think a new term is in the works. Leave a cap on the boat is officially putting a CAP in the boat. Confusing,? ya.

https://forums.iboats.com/forum/boat...t#post10923807

 

[Chris1956]

Is the deck under the furniture part of the cap? On older boats, it wasn't. Newer boats with mounded bowrider seats and finished fiberglass decks in the cockpit, usually means the cap contains the finished deck and other mounded features. This implies that to uncap the boat means hoisting the cap straight up at least several feet.

Obviously this can be done with a scaffold and a couple of come-alongs, then the boat hull could be rolled out and you can fix anything necessary..

How about a picture of the cockpit and bow cap?

 

[great_white_fisherman]

Is the deck under the furniture part of the cap? On older boats, it wasn't. Newer boats with mounded bowrider seats and finished fiberglass decks in the cockpit, usually means the cap contains the finished deck and other mounded features. This implies that to uncap the boat means hoisting the cap straight up at least several feet.

Obviously this can be done with a scaffold and a couple of come-alongs, then the boat hull could be rolled out and you can fix anything necessary..

How about a picture of the cockpit and bow cap?

Everywhere the furniture touches the deck it is screwed down and there is an obvious separation between the flanges of the furniture and the deck. So I don't think it is all one piece. I believe the decking is mounted to the hull stringers. I'll have to get some pics later

 

[great_white_fisherman]

Thanks for everyone's help. I said screw it and found another boat that just had the transom and stringers redone. She ain't a looker but at least the bones are good! One day I may tackle this project but for now, it's not feasible. Both cost and time wise.