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yottyboy
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USA
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Posted - 08/08/2005 :  12:54:37 PM  Show Profile Send yottyboy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I have been thinking about this and here's my plan:
Since we want the glass tracks outboard of the window cutout on the cabin sides, we need to make a new slider track. I'm going to try using the "lumber" made from PVC, such as you find at Home Depot and simply dado the two glass tracks into the material's top edge. With this piece firmly screwed in place (you want it to be removable) the glass will now live outside the cabin! Cheap too! It'll take paint, and generally works like real wood. Best of all it'll never rot. With careful fitting it'll look factory. I think that the fuzzy weatherstrip will go around the cutout perimeter to keep the wet stuff out. If it's tinted with the really dark film, you'd never know it wasn't built like that.

pbardunias
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USA
59 Posts
Posted - 08/08/2005 :  1:17:44 PM  Show Profile Send pbardunias a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Sounds good. But you're going to have to be sure you've dealt with the seam between the deck and that piece of mahogany that runs along the inside of the cabin windows. I imagine that if you glass it in place first, then put your faux-wood track in from the outside, that it will work out. Congrats on some good thinking - if I had done this exercise 15 years ago I might still have my 28...


Pete B from NY
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yottyboy
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USA
166 Posts
Posted - 08/08/2005 :  3:16:59 PM  Show Profile Send yottyboy a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Yes, well there won't be any of that business in the final build.
My cabin design is actually another 8 inches taller than the friendly Carver folks envisioned. That is in part due to the fact that the window cutout is just too close to the deck for my pleasure. In my case the window bottom will be at least 4 inches up off the splashy places. The cabin won't be coming off by removing any screws either. It'll be joined using the epoxy fillet/glass cloth method of "welding" wood/epoxy panels so that the deck/cabin is a single unit.
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doug
Deck Hand



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Posted - 10/06/2005 :  02:37:19 AM  Show Profile Send doug a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hello,
It sounds as if you have solved a common propblem with the Carver Mariner..leaky windows..by chance have you taken any pictures of your work as it progresses and if so could you possibly post them for others thinking about attacking this problem..it would really help to visualize the process..thanks
Doug..Tok Alaska
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