July 4th weekend the bro started cutting away at the transom (engine pad) in an effort to "feather" away the glass and old wood. The thought was that we could cut out about 6-10" of the old wood, grind down the glass and then plug the hole, and continue on. Wrong answer, the wood got more rotten the further he got from the i/o hole, so the decision then was to cut the entire pad out and replace it. You can see from the pic where the rot is and that we have delayed taking that out.
We had to cut the stringers, plan was to cut them about 6-10" back in order to fit the new plug in. Long story short, the more we cut the longer the project got. The stringers were completely rotten and we now in the process of removing them and working our way back to the transom piece of the project.
Some of the stringers were nothing more than powder, held in place by the glass skin. Not a big deal, just a little more time, the bird will be stronger after we are done.
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