After I had all three boards fit together, I took them out and laid them up as a sandwich with a layer of 1.5oz mat, and a layer of 1808. I presoaked each sheet of wood with resin, then laid the glass up, than put the two parts together and weighted them with cinder blocks. This took a little over two gallons of resin for both pieces of the "sandwich".
Hi Rich,
Am starting the rebuild of my 170 and am going back with wood. The transom wood didn't look all that bad for being 41 yrs old. Probably would have lasted another 30.
Anyway, if I read the layup schedule for your transom correctly you laid a piece of the ply down, coated it in resin then layed a 1.5oz mat and rolled (brushed?) that in and then a layer of 1808, rolled that in (or brushed?) and then coated the bottom side of the next layer of wood with resin, layed that on top and repeated the schedule for the next layer? All wet on wet? How thick was the finished product? and how thick was the total transom after mounting it on the boat?
Would you have done anything different when doing your transom now that you're through? Would you have gone with a thinner floor - like 5/8?
I put 5/8" in when I replaced the floor 14 years ago and when I cut it out a couple weekends ago 95% looked like the day I put it in. For some reason the front 5" of my floor, where it met the casting deck, got water damage - not sure how, no penetrations or anything, just rotted away. Weird.
Where did you buy the plywood?
Did you use polyester resin everywhere?
