Floatation Bracket...Build or Buy?

[Bigshrimpin]

Captc - You could always get a slip for Sept in Florida. Seriously how bad is the transom damage? Do you have any recent pics?

[Captn C]

I am going to take some. The boat is at the shop right now....I lost power in the starboard engine Sunday.

I can't figure out why I can't get it to stop cracking. As most of you know I had to do some major repairs to my bay boat because of an accident with a 65' barge....those repairs are still in prefect condition and it is a very flexible boat....nothing has re-cracked.....

Any way I know how to lay glass and I am using epoxy resin. Where I have bonded the new knees to the transom won't hold....where I bonded the knee to the stringer is holding fine. And where I have tried to repair the cracks in the corner of the splash well keeps cracking....which I know will happen it the knees come loose.

I feel there is too much flex in the transom material...transom possibly too thin?!?! I have been informed the material is called "AirLite". I know the stuff is soft. I wish I could have got the knees to extend higher, but there isn't room to do it.

I have a new plan to get me though till winter and keep it from possibly tearing the skin of the transom....

I want to remove the splash well and put a aluminum plate on the inward side of the transom...it will act as a huge washer for all 4 engine mounting bolts.

BTW-When I do the major work on the boat this winter I plan to get with Tran about it. I hope to have him do some of the work as well.

[edloh]

Tran comes highly recommed in fixing things like this. someone once told me that he fixed a redesign a boat for a manufacturer as the were having "cracking" problems.