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It was obvious the transom had suffered an impact on the port side, the crack visible ran about 30mm into the engine well. |
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I removed the useless 30mm wood screw on the left and filled the area with Sikaflex |
Apart from a few minor scratches & gouges in the hull, this was the most serious damage I could find on the boat. The starboard side was fine. The port side, not so. Either the boat had been backed into something while on the trailer, or reversed into something whilst afloat. Either way the engine well top edge had been damaged with a crack running about 30mm into the well. The outside of the transom top edge was intact. I removed the useless 30mm wood screw what was holding nothing at all, cleaned the hole and filled the whole are with Sikaflex, pumping it in until it oozed out the crack in the topside. I then drilled a new hole to the right of the original to a depth of about 70mm into the transom timber on both sides, filling them with Sikaflex and screwing in a zinc coated coach bolt. The whole top edge of the transom is now very rigid. I would like to have removed the outboard to replace the alloy angle with a larger section of 75x75mm but I don't have the facility to remove the engine from the transom.
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