I had the top screws that hold one of my swim step brackets pull out of the transom.  Other than drilling all the way thru, what would be the best way to fix this ?  Would filling it with some epoxy resin paste and redrilling work ?

I had the top screws that hold one of my swim step brackets pull out of the transom.  Other than drilling all the way thru, what would be the best way to fix this ?  Would filling it with some epoxy resin paste and redrilling work ?

I just had one of the locals here show me something I had never thought of on the same exact thing!

He had his boat over for me to lift the engine so he could get the oil filter off and change the oil ( I know, long story.......but I have to install a remote for this guy now).

ANYWAY, his did the same thing, and he was so proud of hisself he had to show me what he did. He went to Lowes or Home Depot and got those, well, I call them Ikea inserts, that you get with their furniture. You know the ones that thread into the particle board with an allen wrench and then you can screw a machine screw into them? I didn't know they made them bigger than 1/4-20. Apparently they do. So he drilled out the hole a little bigger, not clear through the transom to the size he needed, cut them off to the proper length, dipped those little gems in epoxy resin and threaded them into the transom, then a bolt with loctite on it through the swimstep bracket into the insert. Viola! fixed! I was pretty impressed!

Ray

Drill through, stainless bolts, Use some nice anodized aluminum stringer washers and nylocks on the back side a bit of silicone in the hole and call it a day. That's marine Performance boat standards and it hasn't changed in thirty years.

drill them through, use stainless steel bolts and some nice thick SS washers and SS nylon nuts.  put some silicone in the hole before you tighten it all up.  you could pick the boat up by em afterwards.

You will not want to run SS bolts and SS nuts together. They typically bind. Just my opinion.

Is anyone concerned like me that the transom may have some rot?

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The only thing the transom wood is for is to support his swim step, right? I mean, all the forces of the engine are on the stringers and bottom of the boat, the forces of the jet are also on the bottom, not on the transom. Be different with an Outboard or I/O, I wouldn't be concerned about it much. 

Ray