New aft bulkhead windows.

[John F.]

Finished these the other day. A tried to match the curve/angles of the flybridge/boxes. They really open up the interior. I need to clean-up the sealant a bit.





I'll get to the door someday.

[PeterPalmieri]

Looks good

[Tony Meola]

John

Looks great. How did you make the frames?

[John F.]

Tony-

Sorry. Forgot about this. That aft bulkhead/whatever is 1/2" ply. I rabitted out a 1/4" deep by 1/4" wide inset, and rounded the outer edge over. The window sits in the 1/4" inset. I was going to make an inside trim piece to go over the inside of the window, overlapping the window and bulkhead by 1/2" to hold the wondow in. So far, the windows have stayed in place being held by the sealant, and the window guy thinks they'll hold with only the sealant. If they fall out, I'll make the piece to hold them in. I kinda' screwed up and made the windows an inch or 2 too big. I won't have much room to fit the trim pieces in if I need them.

John

[Tommy]

Looks great, John; it really does open up the cabin nicely.

[Capt.Frank]

John,
Looks awesome. Did you replace the bulked and tab it in place? If so did you just replace the inside pice? Or just cut out bigger windows. You did s great job.

[John F.]

Capt. Frank-

When I pulled out the f'glass liner for the head, and the starboard settee thing, I found that the bulkhead had been cut into and cut up. It may have been during the DD 8.2 repower. My '69 with gassers was not like that. My new interior design calls for a lot of this aft bulkhead to be exposed. So, I smeared some epoxy in the place where the bulkhead had been cut up, and then epoxied a 1/4" ply skin over those areas to make fairing easier. The 1/4" got a layer of f'glass cloth, and then faired. The 1/4" covers the aft bulkhead from the hull up to about 1" below the aft windows. I did it this way, instead of sistering in new aft bulkhead piece on because I had previously filled and glassed the seam around the top of the bulkhead where it hits the interior ceiling. If I were doing it again, I would sister in a 3/8" or 1/2" inside piece to the aft bulkhead that ran all the way from the hull to the ceiling. That's strengthen everything, and give 1" thick material to cut the windows in to, instead of the 1/2" I had. Woulda', coulda', shoulda'. It looks fine as is, and is stronger than what Bertram put there in the first place, so I haven't lost any sleep about it,

[Yannis]

John,

I would like to add a window onto the door of my 28. This way, when inside with the door closed, one can observe what's going on outside without having to lean over the couch.
Thing is that it has to look identical to the side bulkhead windows that are white painted aluminum with curved angles.
Where can one look for either ready windows with that frame, or, make a rounded frame as explained?
Thanks.

[John F.]

Yannis-

I copied the radius from the existing windows, that matched the door window radius, and tried to duplicate the radius on the new window cut-outs to give it some symmetry. If you want new, there's Diamond Sea Glaze, Wynne, Bomon, and a company on LI, NY, that does custom marine windows at a good price (from what I here). Can't remember who. Google, or I'm guessing some of our fellows stewards here have more/better info. than I. Good luck.

John

[Yannis]

Thank you John.