I baught it!! but....

Soo I went down to look at this 86 2001 I posted about the other day. It all checked out good the stringers are solid and the hull just had a few minimal stress cracks. It has 824 hours on it. The interior is wasted but the carpet and floors are nice. I picked it up and braught it 1400 miles home for 4300. Now its buff time and start working on the interior. It also has a nice original CC trailer with serge brakes and the fender steps. It was one family owned since 87 and it came from a lake that is 15 minutes from my place. It went to califirnia for a while with the daughter then she took it to florida and now its back home again in indiana. The only problem we had the whole 1400 mile trip home was about 20 miniutes from my house on the highway a rock off of a semi or something busted the entire front curved windshield out:(. That pissed me off. But anyways where might I go about getting new glass for it or if anyone close has one id come and buy it? Thanks dudes.

Phatsat67,

Congrats on the new boat, sounds like a good deal.

Bummer on the windshield but that may not be as bad as it sounds. Since you are in Indiana give Midwest Correct Crfat a call. If they have it you may be better off picking it up as the packaging to ship might cost more than the glass itself.

Suprisingly enough that front glass is not curved. It is a flat piece of tempered glass, you bend it when you put it in the aluminum frame. Doesn't sound possible but it is. If you could get the dimensions from Correctcraft or someone on the site here you could go to a local glass shop and have them cut and temper a piece for you.

Pete, I removed and disassembled the windshield from my boat this winter so I could polish the aluminum frame. Although mine is an 81 the front glass panel is one piece similar to the 86 above. It's just 1/8" tempered glass, flat as a pancake. You bend it when you put it back in the frame. I was in the glass business for about 15 years so it was not a big deal to put back together, if your afraid to handle glass your going to break it as soon as you tap the edge on something hard,POP.

I'm sure the glass furnaces are for bending todays modern curved windshields.

Thanks guys. I got in touch with mid west and they said that its pretty hard to find that piece? Maybe the guy didnt know that it starts out flat. I will post some pictures of the rig when I get a chance.

phatsat67, will the windshield in the parts for sale section work for you. It says it's an 80's windshield.

phat,

use a piece of 1/8" masonite to make your template. That way you can actually put it back together and make sure it is a perfect fit before cutting the glass.

If I remember correctly the corners are not 90 degrees. Doesn't matter if the glass has a curved cut to it, any good glass shop can match your template exactly. Bring a small piece of broken glass with you so they can get the thickness but mine was 1/8". Tell them you want the edges seamed and round the corners and then you must get it tempered. Seaming is like sanding the edges so it will go back together easier for you.

IMHO buy the one in the parts section, buy it now, they are very expensive to replace and people need them regularly. Someone here is going to take thier cover off in a week or two and find that they too need a windshield. Its a very good price and you could resell it if you came up with something else for your boat.