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New transom time Using 2 sheets of 3/4" Coosa 30. Template made and marked. Ready to cut. Checking fitment. As the original transom had been bedded with thickened epoxy and glass, it was not an exact fit so I had to adjust the bottom edge of the first piece. I left a very minimal amount of...

Transom Insanity! Well, I had some air voids when I did the transom the last time and it came back to bite me as seen here. Lessons learned. The typical, "Yeah, that's a wet transom." To quote Chong from Up in Smoke... "Hope you're not busy for about a month" With the cap off, it was much...

Picture time. Been too busy to be posting. Stratos made their boats with a 2 part construction method. The hull was built out with a rough deck. and the cap was a bathtub that was then dropped in and glued to the deck of the hull and secured at the mating edges. When I did the initial rebuild, I...

Can you finagle a piece into that void and slide it up? Can you post a picture showing the entire area?

My Stratos is a fairly deep vee center console and I realized that there would be flex once I pulled out the bulkheads. This kept it in place pretty simply.

When I ground down my Stratos to the hull, I originally used a heavy sandblasting hood. Most miserable day of my life. I do automotive painting as a hobby so I already had one of these. When you grind, get something like this. Compressor air is not healthy too...

Can you get access behind it? Do you have some resin on hand and glass? I'd fabricate a backer plate and see if I could fish it in place behind the current fiberglass. Put a screw into the new glass backer to be able to pull it against the existing glass to test the fitment. If it fits well...

Steve, just be aware that you are not alone. Many of us here have cracked open a can of worms just like you did and have lived to tell about it. In fact, I missed a couple of things on my current Stratos and had to dig back into it. My stringers and bulkheads are all still dry and solid as a...

I covered a bit of this in my previous post. I like to seal the inside first and address the filling of holes on the outer skin later. Joe Buskin runs a youtube channel called fishbumptv that is an outstanding resource for us DIY types. I just put 3/4" sheets of Coosa 30 in my latest project...

Love to see the work! Myself, I'd go with 3/4" Coosa 30 across the board if you can find it. It is more expensive but lighter and will never absorb water in case you miss something. Experience talking here which is why I am redoing a transom. For the transom. On the inside I grind out where...

Deck is off today! YAY! There are 2 small bulkheads that might have gotten wet so I will replace them with Coosa and glass. We're talking not even square foot. By the end of the week, the deck should be back in place.

As advised. Replace it.

My Stratos had wet wood everywhere before I tackled the first rebuild. I had a couple of oopsies with it and went under the cap here again a few weeks back. Question to ask. Do you really like the boat? Do you want to keep it for a LONG time? A sad fact of older used boats is that you will never...

It was 12 or 13 years ago that I took my Stratos 1850 down to a bare hull and built it back up. Money was much tighter back then so I couldn't afford composite materials. As fate would have it, water did get into the deck and transom so I resigned myself to another rebuild but this time using...

I did a complete rebuild of my Stratos a dozen years ago when money was a bit tight. The rebuild was solid but through the years, water made it into the deck where a hatch was not sealed properly to the deck. The transom had also gotten some water into it so it will be replaced along with the...

Merritt says that their 1708 is epoxy compatible. https://merrittsupply.com/product/1708-double-bias-45-50-roll-110lbs/ FWIW. they were outstanding on freight shipping for 2 3/4" Coosa panels, 5 Nidacore panels, a bunch of epoxy and a few other things.

I remember the day of "The deck is in place!" I also remember the day of "Is that a soft spot?" This time it is Nidacore and not plywood.

When I did my Stratos rebuild, I remember looking into putting 2L bottles in the void to save on materials. I was less well off back then. The response was not pretty,

Planning ahead here. Unfortunately, my rebuild of 12 years ago had some water intrusion into a section of deck requiring me to revisit the upper portion of the rebuild. Pulling the cap will not be a big deal so I am pulling it and the wood deck and redoing it with nidacore. With the cap pulled...

When I did my Stratos, I figured $2500 in materials. When I passed $4K, I quit checking. I used all epoxy though so that was much of it.