Winter Project - Inside Window Trim

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John F.
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Winter Project - Inside Window Trim

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Not many posting about winter projects, so I thought I'd share mine. Crows Nest has what I think are American Marine side windows that had sliding glass like the OEM windows. Doug (previous owner) had the frames powdercoated, and had Tim (Thudd) install one piece glass. He also reinstalled them in Crows Nest with 5200. I decided that since they were pretty nice, and it'd be an awful lot of work to remove them, that they'd stay. They looked pretty good from the outside
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From the inside, they didn't look to good. They had a big gap between the frame and the glass because of the extra track.
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And there were had gaps around the edges to where the frames fit into the house side.
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So, I made trim pieces out of f'glass, plywood, and pvc.
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This is a before and after of the trim in the head.
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After shots of the other two pieces. I forgot to take before pics.
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I think its an improvement. I'll caulk around the edges when it warms up and I have two hands.I had surgery on my left thumb (new thumb joint out of a ligament--woohoo!!), so I'm one handed. The paint came out pretty mediocre. This is it for winter projects. It just takes me too long one-handed. I posted it up in case it gives anybody an idea (I get pretty much all my ideas looking at other projects--especially Capt. Patrick's). It cost me with all materials about $200 total, and I have a lot of paint left that I'm going to use on the v-berth wood that the cushions lay on.
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John, I think it came out looking really nice actually. I might try something like that myself fairly soon.

Thanks for sharing!
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Very nice addition, John; can't imagine it been better even if you had two hands!
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I'm the window man ! Lol

Great for a single handed !! I mean grrrreat!
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John

Great job. Looks really good.
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i like it ,seems to be a perfect solution to that interior window edge problem.
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aghh damn...why did you go and do that John!


That makes the inside look really really nice and is not a ridiculous amount of work or money so that I can just say..."Looks nice, but a ridiculous amount of work and money, no way am I gonna do that."

sigh...now I gotta add that trim to my project wish list...thanks for nothing!...grumble grumble


and yeah...looks great and all...even if you had the use to two hands.

LOL
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John once again you did a beautiful job. Crows nest doesn't look anything like it did when you bought it.Wow nice work.
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Thanks guys.
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JohnF,
Even with only one hand your work looks better than some of the workmanship I've seen on some supposedly high end boats. Hope everything works out well with your thumb, I am still trying to get my knee fixed correctly.
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John

Maybe you could put together a brief description of the process then maybe it could get added to the tips page.
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