I forgot to include Starboard in my question - I've used it for lots
of items onboard - especially the companionway slides where teak on
teak always stuck in humid weather. Now it's 1/4" acrylic sliding in
starboard grooves. I didn't want to use 1/4" anything cause I don't
want it sticking out that much. 1/8" or less is OK.

BTW, it's hard to find 1/4" starboard in So Cal in less than full
sheets. The last piece I got came from a plastics cut shop in the
Seattle area - www.clearcutplastics.com

I looked at the Instrument Panel mfg that some one else recommended -
this leaves the panels with raw alum edges as they start with anodized
panels and cut out, and don't re-anodize the panels.

I want to LP the cockpit so glassing in the holes and recutting new
holes seems a good choice.



On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:59:02 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
wrote:

1/4" Starboard?

Wally wrote:

I'm replacing the cockpit instruments (wind dir, speed, knot etc) in
my sailboat and of course the holes are different.
The original ones were cut right thru the cockpit combing
gelcoat/glass - so have some big holes I can't use.
The solution seems to be an overlay face panel - but what material -

- not teak - too hard to keep up,
- lexan/acrylic - starts to look bad after some years,
- electropolished stainless - but what finish - don't want a mirror
- aluminium anodized - maybe - hard to find good anod in So Cal?

Any other suggestions. It needs to be about 30" x 7"