Flying_Lavey
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I posted this in the outboard church thread but it has gotten no traction so.... over here it comes.
I want to get some of your guys' opinions on a transom issue on my brother's new-to-him boat.
The transom isn't good on it. We knew that when we went to check it out. After further inspection, it appears to be a little worse for wear. I don't have any pictures of it right now, but wanted to see what you all thought about essentially making the wood transom a floating piece? The boat has large aluminum knees, or kickers (whatever you want to call them) to the stringers right now. The stringers are wider than the set-back bracket mounting bolts. He are I were thinking of doing either a steel or aluminum plate between the kickers that the set-back bracket mounting bolts can through bolt to. Maybe even use a spacer sleave slightly shorter than the thickness of the original wood transom to really make the transom a floating component. He is taking out a bunch of stereo equipment so this should be a relatively minor net-weight change. Also, its just holding up a 2.4L 200 so its not like a modern 500+ lbs motor.
The boat is a open bow 21' Bahner btw.
I want to get some of your guys' opinions on a transom issue on my brother's new-to-him boat.
The transom isn't good on it. We knew that when we went to check it out. After further inspection, it appears to be a little worse for wear. I don't have any pictures of it right now, but wanted to see what you all thought about essentially making the wood transom a floating piece? The boat has large aluminum knees, or kickers (whatever you want to call them) to the stringers right now. The stringers are wider than the set-back bracket mounting bolts. He are I were thinking of doing either a steel or aluminum plate between the kickers that the set-back bracket mounting bolts can through bolt to. Maybe even use a spacer sleave slightly shorter than the thickness of the original wood transom to really make the transom a floating component. He is taking out a bunch of stereo equipment so this should be a relatively minor net-weight change. Also, its just holding up a 2.4L 200 so its not like a modern 500+ lbs motor.
The boat is a open bow 21' Bahner btw.