CPD
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Can anyone recommend a company that can provide replacement boat windows in Essex/Suffolk ? It will be the first time to have done this too, so any help/guidance/tips etc always welcome. Many thanks.
Window/Perspex supplier Chelmsford/Colchester ??
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FullCircle
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Alan,
I have spoken to these people, and they will be doing my windscreen when I have saved enough pennies.
http://www.projectplastics.co.uk/Boat_Windows/boat_windows.htm
I have spoken to these people, and they will be doing my windscreen when I have saved enough pennies.
http://www.projectplastics.co.uk/Boat_Windows/boat_windows.htm
Athene V30
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Alan
When I replaced the windows in Flipper I took the old ones to the plastic supplier (my local one is in Stuston, near Diss) and he uesd them as a template to cut the new ones.
When I replaced the windows in Flipper I took the old ones to the plastic supplier (my local one is in Stuston, near Diss) and he uesd them as a template to cut the new ones.
LONG_KEELER
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I used the same people 13 year's ago when I bought my current boat. That was just for the perspex which they cut and drilled with just a day's notice. Nice that they are still in business and must be doing something right.
rudolph_hart
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Another vote for Project Plastics. Made up the replacment windows on both my last boat and the current boat. Helpful, very quick (next day) and resonably priced.
jhr
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ChattingLil
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I've been thinking about getting perspex washboards - can anyone suggest the thickness?
FullCircle
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What you need is a nice sprayhood
Oi, jhr, you turning into some sorta East Coast 5th Columnist? No Perambulator hood to ruin Marc Lombards carefully considered coachroof lines, mate. We shall have a moulded windscreen in finest Macrolon, with a carefully sculted removeable cuddy cover back to the grab rail, and thus blending to a Bimini. Just waiting for the lottery to come up.
Lisa. 10mm at a pinch, but better in 12mm. Do not use Perspex, it is brittle. Use acrylic, such as Macrolon above. Measure your current slot for washboards, that will be the determining factor.
Athene V30
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I have 2 bottom washboards, one 'normal' in wood and one in perspex with wooden frame to make it the same thickness. The perspex is only 4mm with holes drilled in it and I use most of the time rather than the wooden one.
jhr
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Fifth columnist, my *rse!
My very earliest sailing, as a toddler, was on my dad's East Anglian One Design, kept in Brightlingsea. I am a South Coast parvenu, having only sailed on Lake Solent since the early sixties.
My very earliest sailing, as a toddler, was on my dad's East Anglian One Design, kept in Brightlingsea. I am a South Coast parvenu, having only sailed on Lake Solent since the early sixties.
Wunja
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Are you trying to make it look like a Hallberg Raccy?
FullCircle
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Fifth columnist, my *rse!
My very earliest sailing, as a toddler, was on my dad's East Anglian One Design, kept in Brightlingsea. I am a South Coast parvenu, having only sailed on Lake Solent since the early sixties.
Then Re-bienvenue,parvenu. Still bet he didn't have a pram on the EAOD!
FullCircle
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No, a much more modern, less boxy look, a bit like the 36CC in the picture here, but with the side uprights more hidden, and the side lights styled to match the swoop of the windows on my Jeanneau.
Lodesman77
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Just to avoid confusion - Perspex IS acrylic. Makrolon is polycarbonate...
There is a good comparison of their relative qualities and uses on this link:
http://www.hydrosight.com/technology/polycarbonate_vs_acrylic.php
But the serious question - smoked or tinted? (grey or brown)? Who has experience/preferences they'd be willing to share?
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There is a good comparison of their relative qualities and uses on this link:
http://www.hydrosight.com/technology/polycarbonate_vs_acrylic.php
But the serious question - smoked or tinted? (grey or brown)? Who has experience/preferences they'd be willing to share?
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FullCircle
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Completely correct, and an unforgiveable mistake from a plastics engineer. What was I thinking.
I have tinted greenish washboards and hatchway on my Jeanneau. I really like them.
Wunja
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Is that to match your tinted greenish complexion when travelling up the Wallet?
Lodesman77
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greenish? I hadn't thought of that. I'd been looking at my hatches (grey) and windows (brown) and couldn't figure which was best for bright/dull conditions etc. I had a pair of green sunglasses I used to use for skiing which were excellent, now you've got me thinking...
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Sixpence
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On the subject of washboards and hatches, is 12mm macrolon strong enough to use as a walk over hatch ?, plan is to make it a two sectioned hatch with a water shield to protect the join, so we can open the hatch with the sprayhood fitted
FullCircle
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Most certainly is. My sliding hatchway and the opening hatches are both 12mm.
jhr
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Then Re-bienvenue,parvenu. Still bet he didn't have a pram on the EAOD!
Actually, I think the tender was a pram dinghy!
On the subject of the windscreen, that looks rather good actually. Like Vince, I thought you were aiming for Rassyfication.....