Splashwell deletes on Sleekcraft SSTs

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25two.stroke, I’m just the opposite on the transom replacement theory. For small boats that the hull and deck are not glassed together, I think it’s a lot quicker to remove the rubrail, screws/bolts/rivets and move the deck forward a few feet to access the transom from the top. If you cut the back deck off, you have to worry about the glassing it back on propertly and making sure the paint matches back up.
But I guess it depends a lot on the design of the boat and work to be done.
Cheers-

[25two.stroke]

25two.stroke, I’m just the opposite on the transom replacement theory. For small boats that the hull and deck are not glassed together, I think it’s a lot quicker to remove the rubrail, screws/bolts/rivets and move the deck forward a few feet to access the transom from the top. If you cut the back deck off, you have to worry about the glassing it back on propertly and making sure the paint matches back up.
But I guess it depends a lot on the design of the boat and work to be done.
Cheers-

Yeah, job to be done and personal preference too. And it depends on if you can get the rubrail off without killing it. I guess every job is different.

Pain matching comes down to how much you/the client care...some people are all good with a black or white transom faded into whatever the side colors are.

I would say if your gel is immaculate then cutting the transom out from the back is not ideal. But for MOST of the transom replacements around here its white fishin boats and they don't really care as long as its glassed up solid and won't break.

[ADDvanced]

In my vid I explained that I think I can glass it back in without anybody noticing, but we will see. As long as it's in the exact same place, I should be able to glass from the back, reinforce it, then fill the cut line from the top with gel and blend out white. Maybe it won't work out, but I chose a flat rectangular surface for the cut, so a decal would also be able to hide most of it.

I'm feeling confident at the moment, but we will see how it turns out.