New screen for Timebandit...

[nugent]

Originally Posted by Hightower

Ed is a master craftsman when it comes to front screens. Looks really good!

Two words of caution however is that it is mighty tempting for crew to use the edge of a screen as a hand hold and it wouldn't take much effort to break the screen. The other point I would make is that you'd want to wear Gekkos to stop you slicing the top of your head off if you stuffed Time Bandit or hit something at high speed. I know as I hit my bonce on the grab rail around my screen when I hit a bigger than expected wave

So it might be worth considering a grab rail around the screen.

Aww shucks ta.

chris is having a grab rail done once he has tried and tested it, it is actualy quite far back be fairly hard pushed to nut ittrust me,,

i am 5 mins junc 5 m5 sir, pm if you wish sumat creating

[nugent]

Originally Posted by nugent

Aww shucks ta.

chris is having a grab rail done once he has tried and tested it, it is actualy quite far back be fairly hard pushed to nut ittrust me,,

i am 5 mins junc 5 m5 sir, pm if you wish sumat creating

junc 4 m5 (der forgot where i live now)

[Chris]

An update on the screen...

I took the boat out for a spin and was really impressed with how well it worked keeping the wind out of my face, I could now actually hear the engine for a change when travelling at speed (not loud of course it is an E-tec after all !)

I noticed that the screen was actually higher than it needed to be as I could lift my head a few inches above the top and still feel protected.

So I spoke to Nugent and we agreed that having another stab at it with a shorter screen would be good and also there were a couple of imperfections with the old screen theat I know Edd was not 100% happy with being a bit of a perfectionist.

So I took TB back up to Birmingham on Sunday and Edd had made a template on the CNC machine and had cleaned up all the curves and lines using CAD.

The end result was that the screen is perfect and being shorter it looks better too.

So now I get the best of both worlds the boat looks good and so do I since I won't have to wear a Gecko

[Poly]

are you going to put some sort of protection (e.g. grab rail?) around that because its probably ideal face height in a stuff...

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Polwart

are you going to put some sort of protection (e.g. grab rail?) around that because its probably ideal face height in a stuff...

I may do although its actually a fair way forward of the "headbutt line".

[Maximus]

Originally Posted by Chris

I may do although its actually a fair way forward of the "headbutt line".

Looks GOOD to me mate!...haveing said that Polwart may have a point, after all the ''Ol boys North of the Border'' ARE meant to be THE experts in the ''Head butting'' department!!

[Maximus]

Meant to say Chris,going to see my guy who does the stainless work on Friday,I'll show him the pics of your screen and get the 'S.P'.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Maximus

Meant to say Chris,going to see my guy who does the stainless work on Friday,I'll show him the pics of your screen and get the 'S.P'.

Thanks !

[nugent]

Mark has done it like this b4 Chris