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Paul, I removed the rudder plate and found a crack in the transom about 6" wide that someone had tried to fix unsuccessfully with a Bondo-like material. I cleared out the old material and got down to good fiberglass. There's now 5 or 6 layers of fiberglass cloth and polyester resin 2" past the original crack. I just remounted the rudder plate and it's really solid now. Won't win aby dtobin - sailmfg
Paul, Thanks for your reply, but that leads me to a new question. The access panel is not big enough for the plywood piece to fit through, so if it isn't original equipment, I'm pondering how it got in there. Is it possible that someone split the deck from the hull at some point. If you remove the aluminum rub rail, is there a hull-to-deck joint, or is the rub rail all that holds it togetheby dtobin - sailmfg
Just bought a Sidewinder - sail #72 - 1972 model, don't have the hull number handy. I haven't had her out yet, but I did notice that the transom seems to flex a bit, mostly near the top of the mounting plate for the rudder. Is this normal? Everything looks fine - just more flex than expected. The rudder plate is bolted through a piece of ply in the transom that I can see through an access plaby dtobin - sailmfg