If the wood goes away, you're left with a fiberglass reinforced tube, with
approx 1/8 to 3/16" wall thickness. Even the transom has about 3/4"
fiberglass (from the bottom of the spashwell to top). The outer is 1/4 to
3/8. The inner liner which makes the floor and comes all the way to the top
around the entire boat, is 1/4" or so. Then the deck is put on top which
has the splash well as part of it and it varies between 1/8 to 1/4". The
wood in the transom which was originally 1 1/4" thick and which I removed
most of with a w/d vac, looked like just a filler and was made in three
pieces being a center, left and right. You'd think for strength, you'd need
something that went all the way across but before I bought the boat, I put
my 200+ lbs on the skeg with the engine tilted up and the skeg only pushed
down, 1 to 2 inches, flexing the transom only about 1/4".
Again, I confirmed this with Wellcraft. I'm talking this particular year
Wellcraft boat--not any other.
LD

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:10:46 -0400, "LD" wrote:


Really. Well I'll be danged. So the stringers just - exist?