The owner of a small sport boat hired me to remove the ports that were screwed in by a boatyard and restore them to the original glued in ports. Looked a LOT better. Sport boat manufacturer uses marine silicon. I used black LifeSeal. The port were not structural.
Dennis C. On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Charlie Nelson via CnC-List < [email protected]> wrote: > I was not prepared to do the glued/taped windows on my C&C 36 XL/kcb when > the windows were replaced this past spring. (They were both leaking and > 'crazed' from the NC sun after 15+ year in it). > > The yard preferred to seal them with a proper sealant and then use screws > to hold them in place--they were so reluctant to either glue or tape them > (and stand behind their work!) that I gave up and let them do it their > preferred way. > > Time will tell whether I made the best choice. OTOH, given the sun and > heat, cabin-top flexing when racing or pounding into waves, etc. and > without 'proper' window frames, I doubt any window fix is really permanent > on our C&Cs. > > Thus Mike's suggestion of screwed in windows, done reasonably correctly > with a reasonable number of screws used to simply keep reasonable > compression on the sealant, makes a lot of sense. It certainly makes the > job easier and cheaper compared to the trouble of breaking a glued joint > which leaks. > > It boils down to if the job is pretty easy and cheap, doing it more often > (if required) might be preferable to the effort required to do replace > glued in windows done less often. > > YMMV, > > Charlie Nelson > Water Phantom > 1995 C&C 36 XL/kcb > > [email protected] > > >
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