Re: solid as...
Re: solid as...
As worded, that's a difficult question to translate - but I'll give it a shot.
I'm guessing you mean that your transom only has about 2" of a soft spot and you're wondering if you can get away with just cutting out that spot and replacing it. I read a lot of threads here and it seems to me most people think their transoms are in far better shape then actually are - once they pull them out, they see just how bad the situation was. When I bought my boat I thought the transom was fine - when I pulled it out I found it was half rotten and entirely waterlogged and weighed about twice what it should.
My guess is that if you have found a 2" soft spot, you have lots of other soft spots - you just haven't found them yet. If you replace just the one spot, you will always have that nagging voice in the back of your head wondering about the rest of the transom. Ask yourself what's different about that spot than the rest of transom? Why would the rest of it be dry if that spot is rotten?
My advice - get it over with and replace the whole thing. Even though you haven't told us what kind of boat were talking about, I bet you'd be surprised that replacing the whole thing isn't going to be THAT much harder or more expensive than replacing just a small portion. If it's an aluminum boat, replacing the entire transom is really not a very big deal. If it's a glasser, you're cutting glass and re-glassing either way so why not do the whole thing and get the extra piece of mind you get from knowing for sure the entire thing is 100% solid?
