Progress photos - windshield installed

[jeff pierce]

I'm making steady progress now. Windshield is installed, cockpit flooring painted and ceiling boards got a few coats of varnish.

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pdb59ac5fb202e0cb75aa0bce4ddc2917/faf36f7c.jpg http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/pabcbb6fe5e818fbfc7195c2e993ed41b/faf37180.jpg

Thanks for looking.

[Bernadette]

absolutely beautiful!!!!

[Art Read]

Damn, you're fast! Looks even more wonderful, but remember to enjoy the process! I actually get a little "meloncholy" when I go down into the vast, empy, "ex-boatshop" now to visit... ;)

[John Blazy]

Very very nice, Jeff. Is this a restoration or new? Will you be getting it wet on one of these hopefully warm october days?

The nice part, Art, about an "Ex-boatshop" is bringing her in every so often to add all the fun detail work you always wanted to do like wood line cleats, wood cupholders (really need to do that), wood drawers for flares, corkscrews, etc.

[jlapratt]

Beautiful, simply beautiful.

Jeff

[JimD]

Tres snazzy!!!!

[videoguy]

As Wild Dingo would say Absaflaminawsume. smile.gif smile.gif ...Phil

[Dale Genther]

Jeff - I'm looking for a source for a windshield very much like the one on your boat. Did you buy it, make it or was it the original (if this is a restoration) If you bought it where did you buy it and if you made it where did you source the parts? BTW GREAT JOB !!!

[John Blazy]

Dale,
Can't say about the hardware, but you can get MR-10 Lexan (polycarbonate sheet) from any plastics distributor in your area for the glass. MR-10 sheet is pricey, but it comes with a scratch and solvent resistant coating that is outstanding. I've run it through my tablesaw without the paper masking and saw no scratches. Acetone, toluene, MEK (lacquer thinner) won't touch it + it has a ten year guarantee against yellowing or crazing (new formula from GE, so don't knock it if you've used 'regular' Lexan in the past)

Put simply, it won't haze when cleaned with a dirty towel. - JB

[jeff pierce]

As usual, thanks for all the encouragement.

Art's comment about being fast surprised me. As I like to say, I'm over three years into my one year project. It took me all summer to build seats (which are currently removed while I paint the cockpit floor).

John (and Dale), this is new construction. It is my version of the Glen-L design "Malahini".

She will not be launched until the spring. There's a lot more left to be done than may meet the eye: side console installation (for the motor controls), steering cable installation, lights, switches, gages, deck hardware, fuel tank installation, more floorboards under the forward deck, restoration of the outboard motor...and probably a solid months worth of varnishing (there isn't a single wood surface that has its final coat of varnish)...Plenty more "process" to enjoy.

Dale - The windshield brackets were discussed in my previous "mahogany and chrome" thread. The source was www.tendercraftboats.com. (http://www.tendercraftboats.com.) The glass is laminated safety glass that I had cut and ground to round off the edges at a local glass shop. I made 1/4" plywood templates that fit the brackets and looked right to me and brought them to the shop. Two days and $80 later, I had my windshield glass.

[jeff pierce]

Oops, I forgot to mention the black windshield gasket between the glass and the deck. It came from tendercraft as well and is designed to match the installed angle of the glass.

[Bob Smalser]

...a real looker!

[Roger Stouff]

Jeff, I dunno what to say! She is absolutely gorgeous. Getting closer to the water every day!

[LisaS]

Jeff -

Great job!

Lisa

[brad9798]

WOW, what a beauty.

Looks really well done, and well loved.

Enjoy the process... you'll miss it when you have nothing to do but ride around.

[Bob Perkins]

Jeff,

Very nice! I hope mine is 1/2 as nice when I get as far as you smile.gif

[ishmael]

That looks like a really special boat Bob. Is the color shift in the covering board a trick of the light? I see it in one photo and not the other. Mahogany has such wonderful depth and variety I imagine it is just the light.

[jeff pierce]

Bob,

I looked over your photo album and can say with confidence that yours is likely to surpass mine. I am impressed with what I see. Quite frankly, your workmanship is much better than mine was at the stage you are at. What a great shop you have.

Ish, I'm assuming you were talking to me, not Bob, since he doesn't have covering boards yet. Yes, the color shift between the two pieces of covering board is dependent on the lighting. At the angle I took the photo, the grain on the one piece really reflects the camera flash. What doesn't really show in these photos is the color contrast between the covering boards and the deck planks. See below:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid30/p5d79c1362ebe11fc37be697dc9e99550/fd4ed6bc.jpg

Funny what different lighting does. Incidently, the covering boards are not actually mahogany, but dark red maranti. The deck planks are mahogany (not Swietenia Macrophylla, but Swietenia Mahogani, I believe).

[ishmael]

Jeff, not Bob, I'm sorry.

She really is looking lovely.

[Dave Haislip]

Jeff, great looking job!! Can you tell me what you used for the accent stripes?

Thanks

DAve H.

[True Love]

Really beautiful, Jeff. I continue to be amazed at the talent on this forum.

[jeff pierce]

Thanks,

Dave, the simulated caulk lines are strips of maple. I intended to use holly, but the lumber place didn't have any decent pieces when I went looking.

[imported_Daniel]

Very nice Jeff, yesireeee, very nice. :D

[Clipper]

Outstanding ! Great job and looking fwd. to seing the finished product Good luck.

[Roger Stouff]

Originally posted by jeff pierce:
Thanks,

Dave, the simulated caulk lines are strips of maple. I intended to use holly, but the lumber place didn't have any decent pieces when I went looking.Jeff, did you bend the pieces at the curves or carve them? Just wondering.

[John of Phoenix]

Mmmm! Lovely. smile.gif

Very retro that steering wheel. Love it. Where did you get it?

[jeff pierce]

Roger,

Its really only the strips that run along the inside perimeter of the covering boards that have any significant curve to them. These strips are only 1/4" x 3/16" cross section so they easily flex into place. The one spot with the tight bend right at the nose was the only place on the boat where I steam bent something. Being such a small piece, I was able to steam bend it over a tea kettle.

John,
The steering wheel is Grant model 1042, available from many sources. I got mine on-line from Summit Racing. They had the best price at the time.