Cabin window refit

Work Continues

The cabin windows on both sides have been removed. There is a lot of rot on the starboard side that has to be repaired.





The following pictures shows part of the canvas/vinyl covering and the fiberglass engine room air intake removed.







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Nov 24th Update

The vinyl/canvas cover over the top of the cabin has been completely removed to allow the wooden top to dry out over the winter, then it will be fiberglassed over. In a future phase of our renovation, the vinyl cover over the cockpit will also be removed and fiberglassed over when we redo the cockpit windows. Notice how much room there is to work under the shrink wrap structure built over the boat.



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Erik the person that is overseeing this project (John Winter) is a professional yacht designer and builder. I have full faith that he knows what he is doing and has much better ideas than I do on how to fix it correctly. He used to be a project architect with Chris-Craft in Sarasota, Florida and several other builders before he went on his own.

Seeing the complexity in this project and not knowing how much damage that had to be repaired until we pulled it apart, I hope you the best on your project.

Still a little on the cool side to do any work on the boat.

Work Continues

Fiberglass & Bright work

The fiberglassing is now completed and ready to be sanded, primed and painted.





The wooden rails and the hatch cover was stripped and sanded to bare wood, stained with cherry stain then finished with 6 coats of Bristol Finish Traditional Amber Urethane.




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More sanding & priming

This week I started sanding around the cockpit windows while John continued fitting the engine air intake cowlings back in place, fairing the top with Bondo then sanding and applying a coat of epoxy primer.











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John painted the outside and middle of the cabin top with a 2-part epoxy PrimeKote primer where it will be a smooth finish and the insides with a 1-part Pre-Kote primer where it will be a non-slip finish. The main reason for using the 1-part primer is because we ran out of the 2-part primer. Later this area will be covered with synthetic teak decking.





I sanded the wood around the windshield and cockpit side windows to bare wood, stained with a cherry stain, then applied 6 coats of Bristol Finish Traditional Amber Urethane.





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Cabin top & windows completed

We finished phase 1 of our renovation project on the Shangri-La. The cabin top has been rebuilt and fiberglassed and the new windows are in, in spite of the problems we had with the sliding windows. They look good and function okay, they just don't lock. I cannot recommend USA Marine Windows for any job. On the other hand, John Winter has done a marvelous job with his design and workmanship. But now he's off to Knoxville, TN hoping to restart his marine business there. I would recommend him to anyone. Next year we will start on phase 2 of our renovation project, remodeling the cabin interior.







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