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Here I've replaced the rotten balsa with new balsa. It was bedded into epoxy and I've set up a jig so I can use a router to make the top of the balsa perfectly flat and level, in preparation for adding a fiberglass cap.

Once the top of the new balsa was leveled, I placed some thickened epoxy on the top and let it cure.

Here I am positioning a jig to assist in leveling the top of the transom before adding the fiberglass cap.

Using the jig to route the top of the transom in preparation for adding the fiberglass cap.

The board is being used as a guide for adding faring compound to the edges of the transom top, in order to ensure that the thickness of the top is consistent before it is glassed over.

Here is the final cap which consists of three layers of 1708 fiberglass. Note that the edges of the top are more rounded than those of the original transom. This is because, even though I am bending the 1708 on the bias, it ends up making a rounded corner. The only way to avoid this would been...

First, I LOVE the new website. I'm just now trying to reorganize my albums and would like to be able to re-order how the images appear in my albums. I there a way to do this? I'd like to sort the images in my albums so that they can be used to tell a story. For example, I'm trying to document my...