Jason I am removing all of them yes. The newer boats do not have them and the cost of new ones was just to much. What I am going to do to compensate for the airflow loss is to put in more hatches in the future. I was going to leave in the one on the head of obvious reasons but decided against that. Getting rid of all of them also gives me a lot more flexability on the interior design. Now I do not have to work around windows.

As far as the clean up inside I estimated that at about 4 hours anyhow and a lot of shop vac bags!!!

Jon

Okay so I was being optimistic about the 30 minutes LMAO
Anyway, yeah I can see how working around windows can be a ***** if there are things in the cabin you want to redo.
I only have 4 total not 4 on each side (wtf is with that anyway , maybe you should have opted for the glass sliding doors on the hullsides come on man!)
Sorry, sometimes I dont understand these manufacturers or it might just be older boats back then were designed by crack addicts???
Anyway, looks awesome, keep it up, dont let your arm get tired from holding that palm sander up all day and night. (bet your one arm is getting really pumped up and your other one is looking like a chicken leg too >????)
Looks good, keep plugging away
You will be MUCH happier when you start priming it and getting ready to paint her up.
Jason
PS go get Kurt to come help you out man, or is he too busy playin with the cig LOL

With a good glass man you will probable not have to grind any more on the inside. you can work magic with a roller and a little acetone. however if you do take a shop vac and set it on your deck and run the hose down inside the cabin near your grinding, it will help. Looks good

Ok finally I have made some progress to putting things back together NOT taking paint off Today I glassed the inside pieces onto the windows and they are now covered. YES the boat is MUCH hotter inside now I will deal as I think the looks outside will be much better and I can always run fans in the boat to keep it cool the couple times a year I actually sleep on it. Anyhow this was actually a lot easier then I thought it was going to be. I put a large piece of plywood inside the boat as my "work bench" and layed out the glass. The first side I tried to do with a large piece and that was a mistake. The other side I did with two smaller pieces and that worked out MUCH better. I layed the dry glass out on the plywood and then made the resin and since I was ussing west system and it dries by volume I got it out of the mixing cup as fast as possible. Then witht the glass still on the plywood I saturated the glass with resin. I then took the paint brush and painted resin on the hull. Then I squeegeed the glass to get all the extra resin off the glass. I then lifted the glass off and put it on the inside of the hull. The working the roller I made sure there was no airbubles and the glass was down tight. I am very happy with the end result. I hope tomarrow I can get some more glass and start in on the outside.

Just a different angle. This side was the first and you can see that the glass was not as smooth. I finished this side in the dark and did not see the glass sticking up. The other side I pushed all the strands down with my fingure and all it will take is a light scuff with sand paper.

Great job man...................I was wondering what the heck was up the project. Looks great!!!!


Bob

This is the inside

TooOld, Kaamacat: Thanks for the compliments. TooOld you have no idea. I keep asking myseld why I did not just drop the engine in and go boating instead of doing this. I know when I am done I will be happy but now I have to figure out what to do with the rest of the stuff!!!

Jon

Looks great, good job. gotta love those rollers

Looking good progress so far- you may want to cover the seats with bags or something or even cover the inside with a tarp to keep all the dust out....