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Hey DIY enthusiasts and boat lovers! Welcome back! Today, we're tackling the project of a poured liquid transom as we show you a transom upgrade that's not only doable at home but promises a boatload of benefits. Get ready to bid farewell to rot issues and say hello to a solid bond that lasts a lifetime!
Join us as we demonstrate how you can upgrade your boat's transom with FGCI's Arjay 6011 right in your own backyard…we'll show you the ropes! It's not just an upgrade, it's an investment in the longevity of your vessel.
We share the tips on how to prep your boat for the best, rock-solid bond. Follow these steps, and you'll be cruising with confidence in no time.
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In a retired carpenter and a marine mechanic.. I replaced a transom on a small checkmate probably 20 years ago with a product called Nida core! It was a pretty simple process took me a couple days working by myself… your Grady White had a lot of work done to get it back to better than factory… the glassing on the structural parts like the stringers was exceptional!! Really enjoyed the video… plus your wife is smoking Hot!!❤
Thanks David! Glad to hear your project worked out great too! I’ve heard of nidacore before there’s just so many different products I can’t keep up with the names! I can say it came out pretty darn good! And yes she’s a smoke show! 😍thanks for commenting brother! 🤙
Nida Core, good shit!
A little trick with the gloves so when they get too much resin on them. put three pair on and when they get covered you just pull off a layer it helps when you are dealing with time crunch resin and its starting to kick in this Florida heat. you dont have to stop take them off put another pair on, you just pull off a layer and keep rolling!
Yes! I tried double gloving and that wasn’t enough! Good tip! 🤙
Finally a great video on Arjay 6011, I did my transom back in 2008 lots of skeptics were proven wrong, my Boat 1979 Wellcraft V 20 powered by 2015 135 HO is still running strong, has no rot to worry about, and will last forever. I absolutely love and recommend that product, the SeaCast is PIA with the fibers in my opinion. I removed the outside skin and went that route, less work. The cap at the top of the transom with very thin plywood cut to size and clamped in place during the pour, the material stuck to the ply and I used a flap disk to grind it off, I poured mine from the highest point. You are lucky the duct tape held with the heat from the curing, I sealed everything up with chop strands and resin, great work as always, the way you secured it back is better than the factory.
Thank you buddy! We also continue to prove the skeptics wrong with our other transom pour video on our Grady! It’s been just about a year and it’s been incredible with our new 250 Suzuki! We did that one from the outside skin. Actually found the inside to be a little easier due to less fairing but it can also be the experience I’ve gained. I can see how the seacast can be a pita because of the larger strands. I really think pouring is the best for the DIY guy.
Thank you so much for the kind words!🤙
Great video you two! Yall work very well together! Kudos!
Thank you brother! We really do! I’m the luckiest guy there is! 🌊🤙🛥️
Your work looks professional and on point. This is informative and very well executed can’t wait to see you on the water this season. Cheers 🥂 to the next adventure 😊
Thank you for always supporting us! 🤙
Love how y’all DIY, nothing like feeling useful , and doing a good job!
Thank you so much man we appreciate that so much! 🤙
Just came across y’all videos damn nice job!!! I grew up on the Chesapeake Bay and done a bunch as a kid working in the marinas! Awesome work
Thank you so much for that! Been wanting to take a trip up there for a while now! 🛥️🤙🌊
be VERY careful with MEKP hardener, Its the most toxic stuff you'll encounter.. One touch gets in your eye and your blind instantly. so glasses at all times around it.. One thing a friend did to get into corners to clean them out, was get a Ebrake cable from a vehicle and cut the end so it sticks out the sheath a few inches and the other end you let stick out far enough for a drill to hook into it. You unravel the other side about 3/4 inch so it will spin and clean out like a wire wheel does.
Fr?? Damn. Humans make some terrible ass shit, but it works 😂
This is such an informative and incredibly helpful video, especially as a beginner with more questions than ways to ask them, this teaches me SO much about the process, thank you! 🙏
Youre very welcome my friend! I always appreciated when people on TH-cam made detailed videos for beginners. So I make my videos for people that are just like me. In glad it can help! 🤙
Ex. video. I like the way the two of you work together, I'm sure there are disagreements but still a nice operation. You make it look as though you both have been doing this a long time. Once again, a great video.
Thanks for that Mike! We appreciate the kind words! We’re still learning every time we do these projects. Far from pros we’re just regular joes. Hey that rhymed! 🤣🤙
Redid my friends Grady 21 transom, core was mush. His son used an auger bit woth a rod welded to it chucked in a drill. Finished it of with a chisel also with welded rod to extend the reach. It was time consuming butsaved us from doing surgery on the glass. Poured thickened liquid core material with chopped glas into the void, benzoil peroxide catalyst was safer to use and produces low exotherm temperatures, important when filling thick sections. I was skeptical but the result was excellent and the transom was bulletproof. He hung a 4 stroke Honda (heavy engine) on the transom and no crushing, no problems.
That’s awesome! I love hearing stories of people finding different and affordable ways to work on boats. Should’ve recorded it for all of us to see. I know I’d like to! 🌊🛥️🤙
In 5 more years you guys are going to be cranking out the PFB250 CC Sport.
Brave souls you're and love your videos. Thank you for sharing...
🤣🤣🤣 that would be something my friend! We’ve played with the idea of building our own pilot house boat (25’) from an old hull. So maybe one day! 🤞
Thank you so much for the kind words and thank you so much for watching brother! 🤙
wow you're incredible! brilliant job and so well explained. thanks
Thank you so much and thanks for watching! 🤙
Awesome watching the progress man! About to start restoring an old skiff myself
That’s awesome Jeffrey! Good on you for taking on a resto job! You’ll learn alot and it’ll be worth it in the end! Hope our videos can help!🤙
dont know if you mentioned the age or model of this Grady,are all Gradys now solid fiberglas are still wood transom, if you know.thanks
John
Hey thanks for commenting. Grady’s till this day use wood in their transoms. And I don’t understand why as expensive as they are. They had a big problem with the transoms rotting pre 99 if I remember right. Then they switched to a special treated plywood. My dates might be off, but even at the boat shows we’ve been to you’ll find wood all over even for bulkheads 🤷🏻♂️ this one is a 81 if I remember right.
I’m replacing the transom, stingers, bulkheads and floor on my ‘82 V20. I used a pourable, Sea Cast for my transom due to outside of the transom being curved. I also increased the motor height of the transom to 25”. I’m using 3/4” marine ply with epoxy for the stringers and bulkheads. I cut the floor out to gain access, leaving a lip of 2 to 3 inches around the perimeter.
That’s awesome! Poured transoms are the best for curved transoms. Many boats have that curve. There’s a gentleman with a video on an aqua sport (which I’m sure you’ve watched) that did a seacast transom. I’m sure your transom will outlast the rest of the boat.
Nothing wrong with using wood for stringers either! We did the same!
Sounds like you know what you’re doing! Congrats on your build! 🤙
The reason you want to start small and get bigger with the tabs is that if a layer doesn’t bond properly for any reason, the next one backs it up. If you started big and the first bond failed, all your patches/tabs would come free and there would be nothing securing it anymore.
Keep up the good work and transom updates. I saw a video a couple years ago of someone using one of these products and I have to admit, I’ve always been a skeptic so I’m interested to see how it holds up. Resin, epoxy, concrete etc are all brittle without composite or rebar to reinforce them so it’s always made me afraid to hang a big outboard or two off one of these.
That’s exactly right! Small to big is the way to do it. We’ve had great success with these transoms. The next one we do will be with composite board. We’ll be doing that in the next month or so! 🌊🤙🛥️
@@perfectfitboating I have too many projects, but sometime in the not too distant future I need to do the floor in a Pro-Line I’m planning to sell and eventually I’m going to do everything in a 28’ Aranow Design Hull I plan to keep including stringers, transom and floors. It’s a really great hull design i picked up a few years ago but I want it all custom and done the right way to the highest fit and finish. I may put the projects up here on YT too, just need to finish up some others before I get to them.
@andrewnajarian5994 I hear you on that. We have a 16ft zebra skiff to finish and we still have to paint the topside of the Grady. On top of that, we’re soon to be getting into a 23 sea craft to build a pilot house on it!
If you post it on TH-cam, let us know! We love a good project! We’ll be your first subscribers! 🤙🛥️🌊
@@perfectfitboating will do! Looking forward to the Sea Craft, is it an old Potter Built?
@andrewnajarian5994 yes! If all goes well, and the owner gets the title, we’re gonna pull the trigger. It’s a 78’ 23’ sceptre potter hull!
Im getting flashbacks and starting to itch watching this lol. I hope the new buyers that watch your boat show videos will watch these videos and learn the difference in quality work and chop. So many buyers can learn from these videos so they understand just because its shiny and new doesnt mean its quality. Im not gonna name brands but some of the new builds you see you just want to shake your head and laugh especial with the prices they are trying to get. And then have sales reps trying to defend it is the comical part. Great video I grinded a whole deck skin on a few builds ago just to save the non skid pattern. took me 2 weeks to clean it up. Wont do that again
Youre absolutely right. When you do work like this, you really get to know how things should be done and put together. I definitely refer back to all these projects when walking through these newer boats. Lots of flashy surfaces but lacking underneath where it counts. And like you said, asking ridiculous amounts of money!
If theres one thing I hate it’s sanding. That and grinding are the absolute worst! Thanks for the comment buddy! 🤙
I used seacast to do the transom on my old Mako 19b. It is a pour in transom and it works Fantastic. I believe the seacast company is local to Florida as well.
That’s another great product! And they’re located up by Titusville if I remember correctly!
Poured is the way to go if you’re DIY! 🤙
Did my 20.5 ft Stratos with arjay 6011 ceramic pour just shy of two yrs ago. My boat has a Evinrude 235 so I’ve put it through the test. To this day not a single problem. Just wear plenty of safety gear because the catalyst is some dangerous stuff.
That’s awesome! I’m sure it’ll last you forever! And you’re right that stuff is NASTY! 🤙🌊🛥️
Now having done both , would you two recommend removing outside skin or inside skin was the easier job ??? Liking the looks of that helper you got there bub !
I would have to say that doing the outside is easier. The inside is a lot more involved. You have to remove part of the floor, color match (if you need to) and some caps are more complicated than others. If I was to do the outside again, I’d use gel coat instead of paint which helps cut down on fairing imo. There’s some boats that have an open transom with no “cap” that can be done fairly easy too. All depends on the boat.
You’re not alone! She distracts me and most of the viewers when she’s around! 😍. Thanks for the comment brother! 🤙🛥️🌊
Fantastic video of this process 👌
Thank you so much! 🤙🛥️🌊
Nice job guys foe mine unfortunately it was done over ten gears ago msybe 12 years. This Grady white transom issue from the factory was mild by comparison to my 1979 Glastron sea furry which only had two layers of get this osb where the motor mounted. We had to cut out the very poor glass both sides used two full 3/4 inch marine plywood laminated sheets screwed together with I don't know how many stainless steel screws but by the time we were done I think it could have supported the Empire State building like you I only wanted to do this once thanks for showing your method r
I really enjoy watching everything you guys do.
Dave, I’ve always seen older glastrons having terrible transoms. They’re popular here on TH-cam but it sounds like you made yours bullet proof! And just like you, we don’t want to have to worry about fixing this again. One and done! Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words! We appreciate you! 🤙
That was a good tip about using the angle grinder it is dangerous esp. when the guard has been removed, as he demonstrated when slicing into his glove at 9.20. What a good demo!
Thanks for watching 🤙
Nice job, I’ve used large C clamps and some wood braces on the inside to prevent warping or blowouts, you don’t realize how much push force this liquid has before it sets
Thanks man! Youre absolutely right. All that liquid puts out a ton of outward force!🤙🌊🛥️
Thank you YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!
Youre welcome! Thanks for watching! 🤙
Great team u2 make and informative video.thx
Thank you so much and thank you for watching! 🤙
If you get a couple of 2.5 gallon pails at Lowes it makes the pour a lot easier, depending on how many gallons just get 1/2 as many buckets and you can reuse them as Arjay doesn't stick to the plastic
That’s a great idea! Thank you! 🤙
You guys make a great team!
Thank you! We appreciate that! 🤙
You guys have done a great job well done
Thanks Manny we appreciate that! 🤙
Love the Thumbnail. Watching now! Awesome. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
My man! Thank you brother! 🤙
@@perfectfitboating Kristy and I watched it together last night. It's a lot of hard work. Outcome and finished results were amazing.
I love the gardening tools being used to work on a boat
Every tool is fair game
You buy Marine Plywood and laminate all layers with laminating resin. After the fiber glassing is complete you can roll on gel coat over all with pigment for a color match
That’s one way of doing it 🤙
Fabulous work I think before you know it Grady white is going to use you and the miss as their best Grady White repair shop and warranty work
Hahahah thanks Larry! We’ll have our work cut out for us! 🤙
Learned a lot, thanks for an informative video.
Youre welcome! Thanks for watching! 🤙
Great video, loved how you did from inside,very clean and neat.Have same boat but an 89.
Thanks Thomas! This should be a sweet little ride once it’s done! How are you enjoying yours?
Love it, truly one of the best riding and best fishing boats ever made and very often overlooked.
Great video and explanation
Thank you friend! And thank you for commenting! 🤙
Really nice video. Great job!
Thank you buddy! We appreciate that! 🤙
Good job saving another boat
Thanks Dwight! Shame to let this little boat go to waste. It’s a great little ride! 🤙
Thank u 4 the video I learned alot
Awesome! We’re glad it was helpful! Thank you for your comment!
Interesting video. I noticed at the 31:13 mark the rust stain coming down off the ring eye at the transom. Born Again Boating’s YT channel had a great video on various rust removers and he recommended “Goof Off Rust Aid”. I bought some over the weekend (Lowe’s for $13+tax and at Home Depot about $19) and used it on a couple similar rust spots on my boat from rusting fittings or where I had left some tools on deck and they got rained on and leached rust stains onto the deck. WOW is all I can say, just sprayed it on with a sprayer and after a few minutes the rust stains totally disappeared, totally amazing stuff. Thought you might find that useful.
Thank you buddy! Yes! That stuff is amazing! I’ve learned a lot from born again boating’s channel. That stuff is great and it’s so cheap. I’ve used FSR and it works well but it’s so expensive! Thanks for the tip! 🤙
So the last time I believe you use ccast and this time you use liquid transom. I'd love to hear your opinions on the two different products. I know you had a nightmare with ccast customer support. To the best of my knowledge, you are the only TH-camrs who have actually used both products and that gives you a unique chance to review both of them.
Hey brother! Actually the last time we used carbon core which was a nightmare with customer service and the company in general. This product is arjay 6011 which is very similar. Both behaved very similar. The difference with seacast is that the material isn’t as smooth as the ones we used. It’s got a chopped material that you have to mix and on top of that you have to get the air bubbles out with a mallet or a palm sander vs the products we used, have an off gassing material where you won’t need to get rid of any air bubbles. 🤙
@@perfectfitboating thanks for the correction. And I appreciate the comparison. I have a 17-ft hydrosports. I need to do a transom in this winter, so I'm looking at options. It's an odd shape so a pourable Transom is definitely the way to go
@@oceanairbrush idk why this comment got held in "review". i didnt see this response until just now. Pouring is definitely the way to go for those odd shaped transoms. No need to try and bend plywood or composite board. For the DIY guy its perfect. You can take your time with it and you never have to worry about it again.🤙
Very nice and well detailed video! The repair looks great! Thanks for sharing guys!
Thank you buddy! Was a ton of work! 🤙
I really learned a lot in this one. I never knew about transom pour; it's probably easier than laminating some sort of coring in there and probably cheaper. Is there something in it that will prevent cracking under stress after it sets up? I keep thinking of it as cured resin without matting.
I’m not exactly sure how it gets its strength. All I know is it’s a ceramic pour and that’s it’s slightly stronger than plywood and lighter.
The problem with many production boat builders is the lack of quality control. Some might be made well and some slip by. Still pretty amazing the stringers were like new after 40 years though. You just never know what’s below deck.🌊🤙🛥️
@@perfectfitboating Sure beats $100K 20' boats. Doing what you're doing is the way to go. Just invest in a modern engine and plan on keeping it.
That’s exactly right. We did it with our Grady. Re did the transom, stringers etc and added a new Suzuki! 🛥️🤙🌊
Wondering why you cut the floor so close to the transom. It seems like it would have been easier to work on the stringers if you’d cut further away.
I didn’t want to make the new gel coat line visible since the seats/cap go over it. Any further forward they would’ve been obvious.
Y’all did an outstanding job I have an 1988 Glassmaster and would love to have the back reworked
Thanks Donald! You can do it! Just takes a little time that’s all. And you can save your self some cash and you’ll never have to worry about it again! 🤙
A black eye for the older Grady White craftsmen. The plant is located about 50 miles from my residence. Today, they build high end unaffordable boats. Not a blue collar boat.
Youre right about that!🤙
Little Washington?
Great video! I have the same boat and I’m looking into doing the same thing so I’m glad I came across this. I’m not sure if you said it but how many gallons of liquid transom did you use ?
Thank you so much! Well, you have an exact guide with this video lol. We used 3 pales so 15 gallons total. When you do yours, make sure you place spacers down the center of the transom to keep the 2.5” width. 🤙
@@perfectfitboatingwould this work with an aluminum hull starcraft? My transom is shot, and it is hard to tie into the hull. Thanks!
@richardmccann4815 I don’t see why it wouldn’t. But call FGCI they’ll be able to help you with that! 🤙
What is the core material you used for the knees in the bottom and the back floor?
That is called k cell. Different brand is coosa board. 🤙
So it took you 15 gallons? I’m trying to figure out how accurate their calculator is. I’m thinking about doing this on my 18 foot center console.
Yes. 3 pails exactly!🤙
@@perfectfitboating That’s not too bad. I know their product is about 250 bucks per bucket. I’m guessing I wouldn’t need any more than you did. Thanks for the reply back and thanks for posting the Content it helps out a lot.
@fishnfreak18 we’re glad to help! I was always looking for good content on this very thing and there’s not a lot out there so i figured others could benefit from it! Thanks for watching! 🤙
It wouldn’t be a Grady white without a rotted transom
Few days ago i watch a transom restoration video and it was also a grady white lol😂😂😂
Hahaha this is true!
Might’ve been our other video! lol
The biggest thing they killed me in the end was when you just filled the gap on the cap with gellcoat and didn’t glass it on 😂 other than that it all looked pretty good
We filled the cap with structural putty not gelcoat. No need to glass it’s not going anywhere.
Edit: I think you meant to say the gunnels. I understood cap to be where the transom meets the cap.
We glassed on the underside of the gunnels, filled the gap with structural putty and finally filled the rest with gelcoat.
How long does the liquid transom last?
Probably longer than the rest of the boat.🌊🛥️🤙
I want to redo mines? Your videos help me a lot I got a 1987 Chris craft cabin boat similar to yours
@brenzee7587 that’s awesome. You can do it, just takes patience and time. Glad our videos can help! 🤙🛥️🌊
Jones County
I'm sorry what is actually anchoring the poured transom to the boat besides the outer fiberglass shell it seems like it would be a strong motor mount but in the last video you weakened the skin a lot with that cut and didnt reinforce the wall to connect it to the boat side or floor with connections bracket
This isn’t like a marine plywood or coosa transom. When you pour, there’s a chemical bond with all sides of the fiberglass making it one piece. The outer skin, inside skin and the sides. So there is no “weaker side”. You can’t peel this stuff off like you would be able to peel off layes of glass off plywood or coosa.
Way to show her off. The boat I mean
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il 60% ha visto il video per la ragazza 🥰
I imagine there is only a handful of boat manufacturers who build a solid boat. This goes to show manufacturers with stellar reputations build half-a**ed boats. 🇺🇸
I have to agree. Anyone buying a new boat today should be doing a factory tour to see how the boat is made at every step. I think what’s more impressive with this boat is that it’s lasted so long without more rot. 🤙
Besides roofing your own house this is the second worse. lol
You ain’t wrong! 🤣
I've learned from this video if I buy a boat and do my own repairs all of my tools will be broken all the time so I need to buy a boat to justify buying more tools got it
Exactly! Thanks for watching!🤙
Bro….I’ve seen a few of your vids now. Your camera framing is obvious and subtle at the same time 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He does it for the boat guys and the motorboatn' guys.
I used a small chainsaw on mine to get all the wood out
That works very well. We used one on our other transom video! 🤙
could do the job a little better. sanding and gluing more carefully
Absolutely! Thanks for watching! 🤙
Did you try a chainsaw?
We used one on the other transom we did and it worked well. You can check that video out too!🤙
Saw the other video first. Check out my comment.
Too many rapid video cuts.
You’re more than welcome to download our 2 hour video.🤙
How is this woman handling fiberglass with her skin exposed to it that's very dangerous to her health she should have on long sleeve shirt don't you think 🤔
Yep
Man you need to get rid of that angle grinder for that kind of job you need a multi-tool. Play a lot less dangerous and more agile. Just a thought 🤔
We did switch. In the video I say the multi tool broke. Then we got a new one. 🤙
Great job 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you Roland! 🤙🌊🛥️
What a fantastic job guys! Not only the work but your video was great. If you pour a transom is it stronger than the original with plywood? My boats rated for a 150 if ya poured the transom would it be then rated for a 175 hp outboard?
Hey Doug thank you so much for the comment and the kind words! If I remember right, this type of transom pour is a little stronger than regular plywood and slightly lighter.
As far as the hp rating goes, there’s a lot more that goes into what a boat is rated for. Weight, hull design etc. Many people exceed that number. But that’s at their own risk. I don’t see a huge problem with 25hp more than factory. I’d be more worried with a 75-100hp+ jump. It’s not just the weight but the torque on the transom. Hope that helps!🤙
I THINK IT LOOKS FANTASTIC ALSO😂😮😂
Thanks!🤙
When I replaced the transom in my Sport Cat 23 I used Arjay 6011 and did it from the inside. It's just easier on a cat and that way the outside glass remained intact. After I dug out the rotten core, I glassed in some Coosa that made the "inside skin", and then filled the void with Arjay. Took 11 and a half gallons. So far, I've been happy with it. No flexing at all with twin Mercury Optimax 200s hanging back there.
That’s awesome. We did our Grady last year and we’re very happy with the results! Holds a heavy 4 stroke no prob. 🤙
@@perfectfitboating On your latest boat, the splash well came out a LOT easier than mine did!
@josephwhitehead1692 we were surprised at how easy it came out! We got lucky! 🤙
@@perfectfitboating I sent you a message on your website, asking for contact info so I could send you photos of my project. I think you'll like it. My splash well is part of the overall cap so cutting it out was chore!
@josephwhitehead1692 awesome! Love seeing projects. If you got on our TH-cam home page our email is there. Shoot those pics over 🤙
what is the material you are using to replace the floor?
K cell is the material. You’ve prob heard of it as coosa board. Just different manufacturers. Hope that helps! 🤙
@@perfectfitboating Gotcha thanks. Price any better?
I think it’s slightly better but go to FGCI’s website, their link is in the bio, and they have the prices up for 1/2”,3/4”,1” and 1.5” in sheets of 8’x4’. We love it!
@@perfectfitboating I thought about that after I typed. I will do that!