Chapter 10: In Which Evil is Vanquished (or “Plexiglass Redux”)
The time came to take another crack at the windshield. The plan, if you’ll remember, was to use Lexan, but polycarbonate is just too expensive, and I didn’t feel like hauling a 2 ft x 10 ft piece across town, so we went a different route: We removed the cracked windshield, cut it down to an 8 ft piece, and re-installed it. For the corners, I picked up a couple pieces of galvanized steel, cut them to fit the bends and screwed them in. We riveted aluminum channeling onto the steel pieces for the windshield to fit into. So it’s not real pretty, but it looks decent . . . but more importantly, the windshield is done.
It is quite satisfying, actually: not only was this a never-ending and painful task, but it is one of the main reasons the boat was originally pulled out of the water years ago in the first place.
