I would peek under the rubrail.
Experienced surveyor coming out Monday. Put moisture meter on it. If need be we’ll drill some holes in the transom to see what we get back. Ugh!
I bought the boat in 2007. It was surveyed and I looked it over and never picked anything up. A few years ago I saw that crack under the rub rail and an indentation around the eye that you highlighted. I didn't think much about it, cleaned it up and 5200'ed it. Crack was smaller with nothing oozing out.
Well Stevie if you are talking about the 5200 that is there YES I did that - years after I purchased the boat. The transom was never worked on. If you look closely at the ring it does look like it was "hit" and pushed in. As SkunkBoat said - "Could be damage from a fight with a dock and not be transom related at all.".
Id say it is worse then you think. The tie down buckle is pushing into he gelcoat. I'd have it looked at sooner rather than later.
I'm expecting the worst but it's possible it's localized. I still haven't heard from anyone who has been inside the transom on this model boat. I'll know better Monday.
Surveyor was out Monday. Transom is fine. The starboard corner looks like a close encounter with a concrete piling to the tie down ring. Enough of an impact to compress the plywood underneath and crack the glass beneath rub rail.
Is there anyway to know about this prior to purchase? Everything looks solid on this one other than the sealant on the cap, but what lies beneath.......????????
I'm not sure why there is a need to re-open almost 10 different outdated posts to ask the same question as you could've simply asked your own, but yes you can. I'd hire a marine surveyor to come out and look over the boat with you and tell you exactly what's going on with the boat before potentially buying it. They will have the knowledge as well as tools like water meters and so forth to go over the boat with and tell you if/where there is any water intrusion. If you don't want to pay to have a surveyor come out and look at the boat for you, you could always buy a water meter reader on Amazon and go over the boat with it? Some of them won't go more than a few inches deep but it will give you an idea of what to expect, and they're usually less than $50 or so.
www.marinesurvey.org
www.namsglobal.org
Here are some tale tell things to look for. If you can gain access to the transom via access holes or panels, let your cell phone be your eyes. Notice the rusty water leaking at the mounting bolts and cracked mat around the as well.
Thank you this is what I was look in g for rather than the other dude who gave me shit for asking a question.
Saw this and moisture reader went off the chart when I put it on the transom and stringers. Needless to say, I canceled the sale.
