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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BYOB Fishing" data-source="post: 233158" data-attributes="member: 1756">Hi Robby, welcome to Tinboats!You can use stainless hardware.  Beware, though, of using bolts in place of all of the rivets.  The section of the transom cap that I had to cut and remove in order to get access to the wood didn't match up correctly when I re-installed it.  When I drilled the holes through the new wood using the existing holes in the aluminum hull and transom cap as a guide, the hole's centerline wasn't perpendicular to the aluminum (even though it matched up with both the boat hull and the transom cap), so that once the bolt was installed, the head was at too much of an angle to keep from leaking, much less look nice.  I removed the wood and re-fit the transom cap to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong, but it still didn't fit right.  I made a new wood transom and used 3/4" lag screws in the problem holes (probably 1/2 of the holes on the transom), mainly just to cover up the existing holes, and drilled some new holes perpendicular to the surface for my bolts.  I sealed it up with silicone and used a washer between the bolt head and the aluminum skin.  It looks good and is water tight.[ATTACH=full]31133[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]31134[/ATTACH]Matt</blockquote>