Heres some pictures of the work we did on Sunday. We took the initial layer of glass off the transom to expose the hair so that when we put the wood in, it has something to bond to. We used several pieces of cardboard to make the piece an exact fit.

     

Last night we got 2 of the 3 pieces of transom wood in. I will take and post pictures later when I get home. I had some time here at work to post these today.

I used a couple of these:



and one of these....



and lots of this....

Wow !!! Good job !!!

goad which epoxy did you use and any other fillers in there while it set also the aprox time thanks

I ended up not using epoxy. I used something else and I really cant say what it was. We did the bottom section first and then the top section with a couple of days apart. What we used cured in about 24 hours.

We are going to try to schedule in some glassing sessions this week into the busy schedule. Its a busy week with the races coming up next weekend.

... and leave us all in suspense 

brad what you cant say what do you mean i thought this is for all of us to learn and help each other well it took a couple of days and you cant say. hmmmmm alright i will guess and since it will hold up for years to come  hmmmmmmmmmmm it was a bunch of Abba-Zabba bars cause it does stick to any thing and hardens  with in 24 hours riddle me this batman?? it does look great thanks

You fockin used gum didnt you ! You should have at least used duct tape.

-beerjet-

Slapped some more resin and glass in last night...

Yesterday, Kyle and I built a dolly and flipped the boat!

Cool! That'll make it a lot easier to change the oil! 

pshhh......we did it so its easier to pull the ski rope and lake weed out! 

by the way....we flipped this thing over with only 5 people. 

When I thought it was just you and kyle , I was impressed ! 5 people though .... Not so much anymore . 

-beerjet-

brad, when you guys flip it back on trailer can you have someone take pics through begin to end even if it goes wrong and falls on fenders or even (hope not) when it falls to ground it happened to me about 10 yrs ago what a mess that was cause we LMAO through the whole disaster. good luck

actually, i had my camera set up on a stool to video the whole thing, but we just kinda lifted it up to test out how heavy it is and we just went with it right then and there. I couldnt stop while we had this 800lb (+/-) hull 3' off the ground.

I will make sure I get the video next time.

Wow that's quite a project you've got going. What is the long range plan for this old girl?  I had never heard of Wreidt boats before I bought mine and I have only seen one other on the water. I am guessing they must be well built or you wouldn't have kept it this long or tried to restore it. Are you going to repaint w/ metalflake?  What comes next? Details man we need details.  Good luck with it.