I only managed to spend one day on the boat this weekend, but managed to cut out the windows that make up the windscreens. It might look simple, but to cut the first window out took nearly three hours, the actual cutting only took 30 mins, slowly moving round with the jigsaw so it doesn't damage the wood.
The other 2.5 hours were taken up by marking it out, making a template from the old window, making sure its centred. The window actually gets aligned from the inside as that is the horizontal reference point. To then transpose it to the outside required me to drill some small holes on the outer edge of the template at the exact middle of the horizontal and vertical edges. The template can then be ligned up on the outside using those four hours and then the window cut out.
To round the corners off I bought a sanding drum kit that you attach to your drill, then carefully and I mean carefully round the corners as sandpaper on the end of a drill removes wood at a rapid rate of knots!
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