Transom question for Hermco and others

[tohatsu]

Good morning, a newbie to the forum here.

Well that's not true, been lurking for ages, it's a fantastic site you should all be proud of.

Please excuse me if it's been posted, I searched and read a ton of posts but didn't see this particular question asked.

Here's my question.

When you do a transom repair from the outside, cutting off the skin, in just about 100% of the cases no matter how many holes that puppy had in it from mulitple motor mounting to Lord Knows what, everyone seems to putty up the holes and replace the skin. My question is, why don't you lay on multiple layers of glass over top of the new core versus repairing all those holes in the old skin and glassing it back?

I've not done a transom yet ( about to) and I've never seen that addressed. Thanks in advance.

Bob