Thanks for all the nice feedback. The windshield was an incredible amount of work. Let it be said that boat projects, fiberglass fit and finish is what I do full time. This boat took me five years of all my spare time and money. I love this boat and it gets a lot of attention everywhere we go.
The windshield was shaped from nida core panels and glassed over heavily leaving a recess for the glass to sit in. The glass sits flush in the frame and is wet set with Sikaflex.
If enough interest existed I would consider making a mold to produce these windshields as a part. One off forming, glassing, shaping, fairing, and finishing is not the way to do this work. Now that one is made, a mold could be made and parts made from the mold at fraction of the hours. A few would have to be made to justify the tooling cost.
I have an idea of building another 233 and making it a 27 like the first Donzi. So, I'm interested in making a mold of the windshield and outboard bracket for another build. Thanks.
Rich-
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that would be awesome
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