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Cant remember the thickness. But it was high grade stainless. I payed $600. For it . The fabricator must of had the stainless on hand. As the material would of cost me that much! Used card board and duck tape as a template. It fit like a glove. Maybe a little over engineered but I felt good...

Seems to be good and solid. It's nice to move on to other things. I don't really give the transom a 2nd thought. I have though about upgrading the engines. But this run hard and strong so I guess I will wait for a bit. Raised the original twin 200 hpdi's up a bit. Wot at 5200rpms 40 mph. Didn't...

I have a Wabasto 8,000 btu A/C unit ordered. It will draw 54 amps on start up and between 4.5 to 6 amps running. I am interested in adding a below deck gas generator and was intrested in inpit from the group. I have a 2001 282 sailfish. Best place to put it and what brand and size? As always...

So I have several in my crew that love to hang out in the bow section of my boat,nice days ,clam sea's. I wrestled with adding these Todd Capecod's that I got 2nd hand. Once I realized that I could mount them without any permenant changes to the boat ,I saw no harm in trying them. It was also...

Finished her up just before Mothersday. Transom is glassed in as well as the scuppers. Superduper bang plate fit like a glove and she test ran hard and strong. Should anyone want to hang 300 hsp 4 strokes on her one day She is ready!

Used a Standard white gel coat yesterday and applied the High $$ Spectrum Grady coat this evening. Also had this bang plate made with the anticipation of adding bigger and heavier Engines one day. Hope to put my Hpdi 200s back on Sunday. Ready to put this behind me. Seems like all I have seen...

A few more pics of Sundays work. One more layer of chop to go and then the gelcoat. Hoping to get this done in the next few days.

Finally Sunday ,the pay off laying up the glass matt!

Friday I had also cut out enough wood to completely glass in the scupper holes prior to refitting new brass scuppers. I used a drimel with a cut off blade to get started and fiished with a 1-1/4 Hole saw.

So after two weeks of a constatant 150-170 degree temp on my transom oven my moisture levels have come down. Friday I epoxed oak dowels in the test holes I drilled. Saturday and Sunday We began to glass her in. 1st lesson in my glassing I learned on Saturday. Eric had me test a small batch to...

Drying out my transom before glassing in. As described above 250 watt heat lamps in and out. the red lamps look really cool but my average temp right around 160 f. So my 1st nights image of setting off 240 gallons of non-ethenol in my driveway have passed. :oops: I will wait a few days and take...

Hey Guys, I wanted to update this a bit,as I see more input coming in on Fishtales "the saga begins" It is my goal to keep my experance seperate. To share the time, materials and methods I used for what its worth . Working in my driveway with a good sized tarp and the Carolina weather has slowed...

When you are at west marine looking at the $500.00 price. Ask yourself,how much would I pay for this if I found myself and my loved ones in the water?

That looks like a comfortable plae to be!

Thanks Stephnic From this angle it looks like my bracket

Day 3 PM. Always helps to have a buddy that knows glass and boats more then you do. (which in my case it dosn't take much) Kodos to E. B. ,He told me as I was looking for this boat. Hey its only glass and wood,we can handle this! We will see right. Yes, I removed about a pingpong ball size of...

Day Three: Scrap , Chiesel and pry all the crap off to remove the transom cap and see what we got. Clean up the seams from the aluminum bracket, the outter fiberglass and the greenboard. Also knocked brass scuppers out. One man 4 man hours

Day two: disconnect gas,oil, throttle linkage,wiring, hydrolics and speedo. Trailer the boat 15 min. down the road to my shop for the use of the fork lift and a place to put them. Two men 10am to 4pm 12 man hours

OK guys ,so its my turn to dig in to the new to me 2001 282 transom. As I had posted thanks to this forum I knew going into this purchase I would be addressing this transome issue. So I will be sharing what I find on this boat to the best of my ability. Day One : Build two engine dollys in my...

Walther Loaded up for the annual trip to the Keys. Walther checking the legal limit Walther taking a break on the shady side. Walther bringing us in. Good dogs,good times!