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Originally Posted by lowpro
The bottom of the transom is definitely glued together, but not so much on my boat after taking out the floor and inspecting. The transom itself looks like it is possibly a plastic dip or just painted. I fixed the one and only hole and still good after 3 days, also put in some D-rings for surfboards. Next step is pull up the entire bottom of the transom, clean, re-glue. Oh yeah, also put on the mini-jacker and got it up to 5". Seems way solid but I am concerned about rolling it up. I think I will have to make a canvas cover with padding for mini, jacker.
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Did you clean around the patch with solvent? It looks like a professionally done patch...well done!
The bottom of the transom is glued. Only the port and starboard sides are welded.
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Originally Posted by Fenlander
Ahh thanks... that makes sense. Those dimples are the "spot weld" type marks I'd noticed. I assume there must be glue too as the water seal?
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No glue...when the plastic melts, it also acts as a sealant. It is suspectible to rot though from the top (i've had people set boats upside down in the grass, and the top edge of the wood wicks water up it) and the bottom (if the water sealing patches on the bottom aren't maintained, then water wicks up the bottom of the wood under the glued PVC section).
I checked my box of goodies...I actually have a little piece of transom as a demonstrator to show you how it works:
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