Rescuing aluminium portlights

Richard Rogers and Alice Sanger painstakingly restore their boat’s 1960s aluminium portlight frames

We decided to rescue four of the six portlights that came with Aurora, our Morgan Giles 30 rebuild project. Brave decision, we hear you say. Don’t most people throw them away and do something with Perspex instead? Indeed they do! But we want make the case for rescuing those tired, beaten up, very old portlights - and show you how we went about it. Our main reason for keeping them is that we like them. They are the original portlights fitted to Aurora, now more than 50 years old, and they have an authentic look about them. The glass is etched ‘Eagle Glass, Toughened, Maldon, Essex’, which contributes a bit of history and testifies to their quality. The alternatives were to order custom made replacements, which are expensive, or the…

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Practical Boat Owner (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2020

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