Mastercraft Curved Glass Boat Windshield Repair

One of the curved sections of my boat's windshield shattered when a tree fell over onto the roof over my boat during a hurricane. As an older boat, no local dealership nor the Chaparral factory could help me with a replacement. Flex A Fab came through with flying colors. I simply disassembled the windshield, shipped them the curved section frame, and they promptly shipped the frame back to me with new glass (Lexan). It looks great!

My 2024 Princecraft Ventura 192 came with a Polyacrylimide windsheld. The curved shape included a bend near the top that served as a Wind Deflector and Stiffner. The bend caused severe visual distortion that resulted in a blind band across the full width of the winshield which at some point caused problems to everyone who operated the boat. Rather than try to live with this safety problem I ended up working with Flexa A Fab to build a replacement windshield using a Scartch Resistant Polycarbonate. The polycarbonate is much stronger and allowed for constuction of the windshield without the need for the bend at the top. We also added several inches more height to compensate for the loss of the wind deflection provided by the bend. Elimination of the bend at the top eliminated the blid spot. I still have to test the new windshield "on the water and at speed" however my initial impression is that the visual clarity is excellent and that removal of the bend has eliminated that blind spot. I did se and view is excellent. I did send the windshield and aluminum track to Flex A Fab to ensure that the windshield would fit the console properly. The only minor glitch was that the support bracket holes were undersized by approx. 1 mm and I had to ream them to accept the original fastners. Everything else fitted precisely making for a simple reinstall.

Upon receiving the windshield back, everything looked fine, packaging was great, but upon install and further inspection, I found it was just a piece of acrylic cut to fit, I'm not even sure the "bent" anything at all. There is so much tension on the glass still, that it popped out once, during install and after while we were in the water. It had also shifted the frame so the center door no longer closes without bending the frame back into place. After it popped out is when we realized the "glass" isn't the right thickness to fill the rubber seals holding it into the frame....overall I'm disappointed. I was expecting an actual curved piece of glass, not a 1/8" piece of unbent acrylic. I'm now determined that I could go get a piece of acrylic ,that's the right thickness ,and bend it myself..... For over $800cad this product is definitely not worth the money....

Your company did a very good job repairing the windshield.

We sent in two boat windows frames that were bent and missing parts. They installed the plastic, fixed the frame and sent them back looking like new.