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Old 12-09-2009, 19:36   #1
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Originally Posted by osirissail View Post
"Olden days" refers to the really "olden boats" like the Triton. The plexiglass side window and hatches, ports is probably lost a lots of original strength due to age. New boats have better materials and mounting systems that can usually withstand heavy seas impacts better than 30+ year old plexiglass.
New plexi can fail too. It's still a fairly common incident in heavy weather. When we replaced our (rather small) ports we went with 1/4" tempered and have provisions for storm covers- belt 'n suspenders.

Old brittle plexi is just a hazard .
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