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Boat window frames

  • 26-02-2016 11:26am
    #1
    Sadler32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭


    I have tried online but cant seem to find anywhere in Ireland that could supply window frames for my sailing boat.
    The ones that are one the boat are aluminium but have corroded. The glass is fine, so I am really only looking for the frames and the seal.

    I have found a couple of companies in the Uk, but they will only supply the windows as a set (frames, glass and seals), they wont even use the old glass.

    There has to be even a fabricator in Ireland that I could send the frames or templates too.

    Does anyone here where I could start looking.

    Any advise would be greatly appreciated.


Comments

  • #2
    neris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,084 ✭✭✭✭neris


    i doubt you,d find frames on their own on sale, any windows ive ever seen come as a frame and glass and they aint that cheap either. a stainless steel fabricator should be be able to do copies up for you if you give them the originals.


  • #3
    Sadler32
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭Sadler32


    Hi Neris.

    Thanks for the message.
    I will contact a could of fabricators when I get home, currently at sea.
    I had one quote from the uk, where shipping was more expensive then the actual windows, and the windows werent cheap.
    Other wont send because of the glass.

    Looks like fabricated is the only way to go...
    As the boat is for sale I want to get the windows done. They dont leak, just look abit tatty...


  • #4
    sogood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭sogood


    Might be a crazy notion, but have you considered any alternatives, like wooden frames? This might give you more options?


  • #5
    Ferris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,290 ✭✭✭Ferris


    How bad is the corrosion? If it is only surface / cosmetic you could strip down the frames and get them bead blasted and re-anodized or powdercoated.

    You'd then have to rebuild them with new rubbers or if the rubbers are not available, bed the glass in Sikaflex. There is a special sikaflex for bedding glass in frames iirc. We did this on my Da's boat (rebuild and seal only) and it was a balls of a job but the windows a now well sealed.

    I spoke with a guy that did the powdercoat job on a Shannon cruiser and he did it brilliantly. It was an old Broom 35 and the powdercoat was satin black and he put a mild tint on the glass. It really modernized the look of the boat, I wished we had done the same.


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