Recent content by jgkelly

Very interesting, thanks. hat gauge Aluminum did you use?

Loren, thanks for the link. Doug you did an impressive amount of work on your boat and I really appreciate you documenting it so well. From your pics it gives me a lot better idea of what might be in my transom, and what I might be up against in trying to fix it. I have been thinking of have...

Thanks for the info. I am using an older Nissan 9.9 2 stroke ( came with the boat) , I'm not sure of the model number or weight off the top of my head. It might be in that 50 to 60 lb range, maybe a little heavier. I'll check that out. And with all old boats, who knows what was used on it before.

I seem to have an issue with the transom in the outboard cutout, cracking seems to be going on. In the bottom of the outboard cutout I have noticed that when I give the outboard some gas it looks like some cracks open up in the middle of the transom across the width of it, parallel with the...

Looking at buying a mid 70's E29, but it has a lot of cracks around the mast step. They may just be the gel coat, not sure how deep they are. Is this a major issue? It looks bad but is not spongy when I step in the area. It also has a leak under the windows, just above the shelves in a very...