81 Sport Restoration

[h2o-ski]

Looking good, do you have any more photos of how the swim platform attaches? My lower bolt in the swim platform is starting to pull out a bit and I’m hoping I can repair before a full stringer rebuild is needed.

No, I don't have a good photo, though it is not hard to describe. My swim deck has 2 brackets and each was through bolted to the transom with Stainless Steel 3-prong Nuts. This is a very poor design as it let water soak directly into the transom wood and I ended up cutting the bolts because the prong nuts had nothing to hold onto once the transom wood rotted away.

However with my boat being the first model of the first year of production, there were many things that were changed over the subsequent years. Hopefully they switched to a better design for your boat.