seacast stringer repair

anything for strength

if i was to pour a stringer i would probably put a piece of re-bar through the center the entire length

Well I can't say anything about seacast but I did use NIDA-Bond pourable in my restoration of the 23' Fish and it is great. Now granted I did all the proper prep work and only poored where the motor mounts go but it is a good product. As for cheap....that it's not. I have a total of six 5 gallon pals in my boat and at $150ish a pal that is expensive. When people ask me about the NIda-pour I say "if and when I ever do another restoration I would for sure use it again. wood just doesn't belong in boats with all the new stuff out today. Thats my 2 cents.

John

Like always then Eric if it's too good to be true,it usually is? I have trouble with the fact that the prep work would be iffy,getting it clean and getting a good bond the the original glass in the boat. I could see it tho in the manufacture of new boats.

Thanks Gary,

I struggled with that last night

Link

I used that stuff on a friends Mustang 17, that had stringer rot on the starboard site. Someone knocked a lot of the gel coat off the stringer when they installed a different pylon.
http://www.correctcraftfan.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=21958&KW=liquid+stringer+project&PID=275814&title=the-span-classhighlightliquid-span-span-classhighlightstringer-span-span-classhighlightproject-span#275814

Bruce, I see you're in sales, and I bet I know what your selling. Hope it works out better for you than it does for the guy pimpin' the Vdrives, but I bet it won't.

I know that this is a bit late for making a suggestion on your repair but when I saw the other posts about Seacast I had to respond.
Well we have used Seacast for years and it is not heavy and no boats have sank after replacing stringers and I bet the guys posting nasty things about Seacast have never even seen it it real life. Seacast is easy to use and matches a wood resin composite by volume for weight. Seacast is also 3 times as strong as a wood core transom.   
There are thousands of boats out there with Seacast transoms in them and I have never heard of one failing. Almost all of the bad reports I have come across are boat repair people that want to charge big dollars for wood replacement transoms in fiberglass boats or people that do not want to change as improvements are introduced. But them I guess there must be some people still riding horses to work and sailing boats with no engines.
(I used to sail on the Great Lakes in a Crosby Cutter with no motor and we were young and having fun)
If you want to know about Seacast just look on You-tube at all the postings or go to the www.transomrepair.net web site and ask some of the repairs shops listed on the site what they think about Seacast. Lets stop telling false tales about something It just make you look silly.
Bruce

one guy did, but his boat sank