Heya all,
I have a 1998 starcraft superfisherman I picked up for a project boat. It actually looks really good. It has some problems I could use some advice on.
The transom seems to be corroding\pitting from the inside I think, from what I have read and searches came up with its because the transom wood is wet all the time. It seems the boat setup encloses the entire transom with decking and storage area so it never drys out in there. Defiantly need to change this in some way when I rebuild it to get some venting in there.The wood is still sound I checked it pretty well, it is wet tho but not rotted.
I am trying to get a season or two out of this before I tear into it, the reason is I don't have a proper place to work on it right now sort of.
Should I change out the transom right now?
So far I found a few pin hole in the transom even way above the water line and when I dig into them with a pick they open up a little bigger than the pick and became solid.
Also I filled the hull with water and found quite a few rivets leaking.
The last thing that really bothered me was on the very bottom port side of the boat where the transom, bottom and side meet. I found what looked like a small leak there, upon digging into it with my pick it opened up to about a 1/4 x 3/8 inch hole. keep in mind the hull is full of water now. It leaked but not as fast as it should have. It seemed as if this area has a double wall and the water would leak into this area like a chamber, then comes out of the hole some what slowly instead of gushing out. Would like to know whats in there but it looks like my only choice without ripping out the decking storage area above this is to just seal it fromt he outside.
Any suggestions or tips on fixing these issue would be greatly appreciated.
I have a 1998 starcraft superfisherman I picked up for a project boat. It actually looks really good. It has some problems I could use some advice on.
The transom seems to be corroding\pitting from the inside I think, from what I have read and searches came up with its because the transom wood is wet all the time. It seems the boat setup encloses the entire transom with decking and storage area so it never drys out in there. Defiantly need to change this in some way when I rebuild it to get some venting in there.The wood is still sound I checked it pretty well, it is wet tho but not rotted.
I am trying to get a season or two out of this before I tear into it, the reason is I don't have a proper place to work on it right now sort of.
Should I change out the transom right now?
So far I found a few pin hole in the transom even way above the water line and when I dig into them with a pick they open up a little bigger than the pick and became solid.
Also I filled the hull with water and found quite a few rivets leaking.
The last thing that really bothered me was on the very bottom port side of the boat where the transom, bottom and side meet. I found what looked like a small leak there, upon digging into it with my pick it opened up to about a 1/4 x 3/8 inch hole. keep in mind the hull is full of water now. It leaked but not as fast as it should have. It seemed as if this area has a double wall and the water would leak into this area like a chamber, then comes out of the hole some what slowly instead of gushing out. Would like to know whats in there but it looks like my only choice without ripping out the decking storage area above this is to just seal it fromt he outside.
Any suggestions or tips on fixing these issue would be greatly appreciated.