Transom I

The top picture shows the transom with the outdrive removed. Notice in the second picture I took a grinder with a 60 grit disk and ground out four areas on the transom. Those spots were gel coat cracks. When you have deep gel coat cracks the best way to fix them where they never come back is to grind the area to a 12 to 1 bevel. Next is to wet out the spot with your resin. Then take some chop stand mat and lay in the area to be patched. Cut your first piece to match the outside edge of the bevel. Then cut a series pieces progressively smaller with the last piece matching the edge of the inside bevel. Let cure and sand the high spots then you can fair it out using a fairing compound. Sand and paint. For this boat project I'm using all West System epoxy products. Anytime you are doing a secondary bond you should always use epoxy. Epoxy has a much higher bonding strength than polyester resin. You can check out there products at www.westsystem.com. I highly recommend them, they have been making epoxy for boats longer than anyone in the business.