Recent content by Fishfndr

In the middle of this re-repair now. The replacement board "sealed" with fiberglass resin jelly was totally rotted, with an even more thriving colony of bugs and grubs living within. Going with the Coosa board this time. My only quandary is what to use for the outboard scuff plate mounting...

You were completely right. It has rotted. Glad I at least recorded everything I had to do to replace it because I have to do it again. Thinking about using a Coosa board this time.

I used fiberglass resin jelly. https://www.autozone.com/autozone/accessories/3M-1-qt-Bondo-fiberglass-resin-jelly/_/N-260o?itemIdentifier=265315_0_0_ No cloth. Just smeared it on there with a bondo applicator. Took a surprising amount, about two cans ($40) for a 4 ft by 7 in board.

And here's the finished product. The whole thing took a couple of weekends, with lots of interruptions and some fiberglassing and curing time in between. Should be rock solid for a long, long time.

I just finished this project and I thought I'd share my process and things I learned for the next person who has to do this on a similar boat. I mostly used the instructable at https://www.instructables.com/id/Transom-replament/?ALLSTEPS as a guide. The first step was to remove the two corner...

I was hopeful this idea would work, but the bottom lip is riveted in there too, all the way across, and then I'd have to remove all of the rivets for those braces in the middle, which include rivets on the bottom of the boat that I really don't want to deal with. Assuming I have to remove...

I'm trying to figure out how to get at the wood board on this 1977 Grumman 3.8 12 ft. aluminum boat. Do I really have to remove the two triangular brackets on the left and right ends, along with all 36 rivets? The problem I foresee is trying to replace those rivets with stainless steel thru...