17ft express crusier uniflite

[mike pingatore]

greetings just geting started removeing rotten wood and the rub rail jacking up rear half of spalash well to install new cossa board 1.5 in transom board stringers are ok going to reseal with 3m 5200 sent the 2 uniflite badges to the plating shop in ohio going with what i got cheek out my pictures

[mike pingatore]

17ft UNIFLITE EXPRESS TRANSOM

greetings just finished my transom,,, made out of 1.5 in cossa board blue water 26 daddoed out the area for the splash well betwween the rear of the boat tub leaving about 1.25inch thick going to use 3m 5200 sealent between top & bottom halfs of the boat befor installing the rub rail ,,,,,,drilled core samples on the stringers seams to be dry & hard no soft wood so ill leave it for now,,,,, see progress pictures

[Helmar]

That is looking real good Mike.

I tend to build the transoms out a little thicker for the new 4 stokes but with the cossa product, you can't go wrong.
I think most of John Nelsons transom and the rear of his boat is all cossa board.

If this is the same stuff he is used, it will last forever.

[mike pingatore]

17 uniflite transom replace

geting closer to installing the cossa board transom doing some more prep today (see pictures)

[mike pingatore]

thanks HELMAR,,,,,,,, ive been watching/learning tomuch youtube L.O.L so far so good hope to be in lake washington in june,,,,,,,

[mike pingatore]

helmar,,,, iam going to reinstall the 1970 80hp mercury its like new had doctor frankmerc in shelton wa go thru it and it screams

[Helmar]

helmar,,,, iam going to reinstall the 1970 80hp mercury its like new had doctor frankmerc in shelton wa go thru it and it screams

I have seen bigger ones on stock transoms so no worries.
My biggest gripe is the early boats had to run twins to get the speed up and I hate how big the splashwell bucket is.
There is just no easy way to shorten that sucker up without doing major glass work.
I might do that to my Dorsett Catalina as it too has a Very large bucket in the rear to take a large amount of water over the stearn.

Looks as you have a good grip on things as no Adding weight to the back but adding structure. Way to go.!

[mike pingatore]

helmer did u see the pictures of the 59 skagit 20 i posted in (they are still out their) with the I O conversion i tthink they did a nice job doing away with the spash bucket

[mike pingatore]

17ft uniflite transom redue

Greetings heres a few more pictures of the work & progross

[mike pingatore]

17ft uniflite REDUE

heres a few more pictures of the transom redue.......and progross

[mike pingatore]

17ft express crusier uniflite

WOW,,,,, this is all that was left in one pice of the plywood transom it is very heavy too 1.25in thick (see pictures )

[Helmar]

WOW,,,,, this is all that was left in one pice of the plywood transom it is very heavy too 1.25in thick (see pictures )

Pretty impressive hunk.
I have seen them come out both easy and hard.
I had several that you could have taken the transom out with a spoon.
Then I have had them were just one corner was rotten but the rest was fine. You can't patch something like that so it too Many Many saw cuts with the proper depth and lots of hammer and chiseling to get them out.

[Bflaherty]

You could totally carve a little off the bottom and have a sweet "vintage" map of the USA! That is a nice chunk... A little odd the rot pattern around the edge seems quite uneven...

[John Nelson]

Im glad to see someone using modern materials. 1.25 seems thin till you realize a lot of the boats had a piece of galvanized steel pipe between the transom and center stringer. I used 5# foam for stringers bulkhead,floor and reinforcing the hull at impact areas. It wont take the clamping force of a motor. I see they make coosa board in 1/4" do you think it would flex enough to layer in an arched transom?

[mike pingatore]

greetings iam going to replace the aluminum pipe suppport suport in that mounts to the stringers,& transom ,,,but adding 2 more matching pipe supports on the sides....total of 3 ( ill post pictures soon) also made a new curtain wall out of 1/2 in cosa board as shown in my pictures