dgfreeze
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- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2006
- Boat Model
- SX
- Boat Length
- 23
Well, over this winter/spring, my boat survived two tornados. Link below. The first one did a good bit of gelcoat damage, nothing major, but quite a bit of scratches, gouges, and peppered the starboard side pretty good. The custom cover was shredded also. Some other smaller stuff, but that's the main stuff. Then two weeks later, at the marina for repairs, another tornado ripped through that area, and broke my bow light and port side windshield. The windshield alone is why the insurance company is having to total out the boat. I'll be buying it back no matter what, but man....what a kick in the nuts. All because of a windshield. I searched high and low, called company after company, junkyard after junkyard, no luck. I finally contacted a custom marine glass company, and they can help...... for $8K. Not in the budget. For temporary (maybe permanent) use, I'll be making a windshield out of plexiglass. I've made a rough template with cardboard, got a good start on a metal form (buck), and made a rudimentary oven to heat it up for thermoforming the plexiglass. If anyone here has experience with thermoforming plexiglass, I'm open to advice. There's a company called Taylor Made that makes windshield assemblies for a lot of different boats, and I ordered three templates from Great Lakes Skipper to see if any of them would work on my boat. That's pretty much best case scenario, but I'm not holding my breath. Anyway, we have a houseboat trip coming up in the second half of June, so I'm working my butt off to get this old girl up and running by then.
On a side note, I have officially settled on a new name for our boat. She is now the Twin Tornado. Obviously, because she survived two tornados, but also because she's a twin engine, and finally, because my wife and I have a set of twins. It kinda plays on several angles. lol
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On a side note, I have officially settled on a new name for our boat. She is now the Twin Tornado. Obviously, because she survived two tornados, but also because she's a twin engine, and finally, because my wife and I have a set of twins. It kinda plays on several angles. lol
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TWO Tornados in two weeks!!
Someone do the math, because I’d like to know the odds. I posted a couple weeks ago about minor damage from a tornado that came through our area, and tore up the barn our boat was stored in. Sucked, but hey, life happens. Took the boat up to a nearby lake, to a marina there for repairs. (Indian...