allen...I too have done alot of research on seacast. I have found it to be a great product...have yet to find somone that was not 100% satisfied with it. The only compaint I have heard is getting all the old wood out of the transom....you have to get it ALL out. Did you take any pics or anything?? You should start a thread of your rebuild if you did.
"But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 25:15