Boat Customs 36 Skater refresh
 

Chris Mills from Boat Customs and Jim Lee teamed up and developed a full wrap windshield this year and I was fortunate enough to be at the right place at the right time, here are a few pictures Chris sent me of the new paint and windshield receiver on my 36 Skater. I will send pictures of the windshield when it comes in and gets installed as well as more paint pictures as he sends them to me. Chris went above and beyond on this project and I cant thank him enough! by-by canopies!

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awesome work!

was the receiver developed in-house? Is this a one-off or will the receiver/glass be productionized?

also, who will be making the glass windshield?

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Chris Mills designed the receiver in house, Jimmy Lee (Freedom US1) produces the windshields through his aerospace company, they are crystal clear. Tooling is done and are in full production.Chris is working on 3 other boats right now adding windshields. Super happy for them both, awesome guys!

Looks great LV, can't wait to see it on the pond.

WOW.... looking forward to following this!!! Please post when you can, paint looks unbelievable so far!!

Pat

It looks incredible. Keep the pictures coming.

+1

Looking Great LV

Now Lets see the Scoops!

Nice !! I guess I need to correct myself on the other thread.

Definitely interested in this. I think there is a business plan out there for updating canopied and Classic deck boats witH wrap around windshields and flat decks.

I offer my boat to test one out in the 40' range :)

Now…..can he also widen cockpits and add a rear seat?

Very Nice!

And that answers my question on that other thread! Lol

Yes he can widen the cockpit as well, we are going to do that as well as add a bustle , steps and tunnel extension next year, strait up ran out of time this year. I dropped it off last month so he has busted his ass to make this happen before Ticfaw.

Yes he's also working on a Fountain right now adding a full wrap 3/4 windshield and paint, it's going to be very nice as well. He's about to finish up Jimmy Lee's 28 Skater, I couldn't stop looking at it when I was in Chris's paint booth, it's just unbelievable.

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any pics of the 28 yet?

Bring it to Havasu next year

There is but it's not my place to post them. I can tell you I'm in love with it! Ha

It's on the fun bucket list for sure!

Larry,

I stopped by BC yesterday. Your boat looks AMAZING! I have been able to observe some of the process as they did the conversion. The way Chris has it setup, there is no doubt that it's a great fit on anything from a 28' to a 46'. And not just skaters, or even cats. He is doing a wrap around conversion on my friends 47 Fountain right now also.. I tell you what, that brought the boat right up to date when it comes to visual appeal.

Noli: Chris had the receiver cut on a CNC router at AllRoute here in Michigan. Him and his team built the tooling at boat customs using those plugs. This entire setup was developed by boat customs. it's not a splash or copy of anybody else.

I've sat behind a lot of wrap around windshields in Skaters.. The glass he is using is optically superior. no distortion in the curve. Skaters glass is nice, don't get me wrong.. Just saying that Jimmy Lee knows what he's doing when it comes to curved glass.

Tom

Looks awesome LV!

Congrats Larry! Looks awsome!

Thanks buddy, see you in a couple of weeks!

Thanks Tom, Chris went off on this thing!

LV Very happy for you. Looks sick! BTW. I cant believe what your planning to do.......a bustle? Wow!

looks great!

yours skater is a flat deck right ? did you widen the cockpit too? does either jim or chris have plans to do any classic deck wraparound windshields?

To heck with a classic deck and wrap around. I say cut the deck off and do a flat deck. I would be very interested in this project this next winter!

Awesome, congrats Larry!!! :cool:

Yes, Jim's 28 is a classic deck, mines a flat deck. As far as converting one to a flat deck I'm sure he could and would love to do one, he's got a great laminator and vacuum bags everything. That would be a cool project for sure.

Thank man, yes the main reason is for the wife and kids having easy access in and out of the water, if the wife is happy everyone is happy.

Thank man, yes the main reason is for the wife and kids having easy access in and out of the water, if the wife is happy everyone is happy.

I agree!!! call em and tell em to get the sazall ready for ya LOL .... I'll follow the thread through the winter for sure!:evilb:

killer 36 lv

Original Concepts
 

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Boat Customs proud to announce our latest projects, we are very thankful to have teamed up with Jim Lee of Lee Aerospace and multiple great customers in this process. We have developed a one of a kind aftermarket wrap-around windshield for multiple performance boat applications. The concepts and designs have been done in house with everyone’s help. This project has been over a year in the making; Jim flew back and forth from Wichita multiple times to help in this process and donated his 28 Skater for the first to be fit.
We are very excited and can’t wait to create multiple works of art, as well updating some of the industries favorite boats. Our current molds and tools will fit many varieties of performance boats but not limited to, 38 to 47 Fountains 28 to 36 Skaters 30 to 36 Spectre’s, the one down fall we found is the size of our original design is limited to 5 person configurations. We are currently working on larger tools to accommodate 6 person cockpits, and should be complete ready to pull parts by late May.
We also are capable of a variety of custom glass work, arranging from Hatches, Bustle extensions, and Center Consoles. As well as everyone knows our custom paint jobs.
I want to personally say thank you to everyone that has helped and supported us in this process, we greatly appreciate everyone’s help! We look forward to working with many great customers!
C Mills
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Renderings, Plugs and molds
 

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Amazing work..... Look forward to following this thread.... Please update as much as possible

Thank you, Patrick

Cant wait to see the 28's and 30's with a true wrap around.

Looking fantastic LV.

The 28 of Jim's looks fantastic.. Must be a lot of hours in the conversion.

Do you have one for a 32B classic deck?
Thanks
Steve

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say you have a boat like the 28 pic below, what specific steps are done to put a wrap around windshield onto a 28 flat deck?
The finished interior shall seat 5 adults.

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