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Jim Wohlleber a very experienced Catalina 470 owner a very interesting and an all around great guy had flown in to help me replace the four main salon windows that had started to show their age. I had contacted Jim through the 470 owners group and asked him about the procedure for replacing the windows, Jim's response was well when do you want to do them I,ll fly up and give you a hand. Jim is a commercial air line pilot and said "heck I've flown over Nova Scotia about 300 times and would like to see it from the ground":) I had received the new windows a few weeks earlier from Catalina and had the necessary tools and materials that Jim recommended so we were good to go. Jim had assisted other 470 owners on quite a few boats so he had it perfected. We taped and bagged everything on the inside while we were removing the windows to prevent a mess. After the windows were removed we thoroughly cleaned and prepped the area for the new windows. We then dry fitted the 1st window marking the outline in pencil after doing this we removed the window and masked everything to prevent the 795 dow corning mastic from making a mess. Once we had masked the area the window was firmly pressed into place and lightly compressed with a temporary holder to prevent the window from moving. We the repeated this process on the three remaining windows and after four days I was able to remove the holders and clean-up the windows. What a slick project and all thanks to my new friend Jim.
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