My S14 Lund, like all Lunds in that era was over built and had an aluminum clad transom and splash rail that drained any water back over the transom before it even got into the boat. No small thing because we back trolled pretty often out of that boat. Right now the water is really high here and I’m pretty sure that the exposed wooden covered transom on my Alumacraft is gone being upside down up north. The exposed wood on my Mirocraft got replaced with one made from Nyloboard, a near indestructible synthetic board.
