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With the shiny
new stern pulpit now in place, and after adding the new chromed
Lewmar 14 STC winches, the
original Catalina-installed fuel locker cowl vents stood out like
sore thumbs, their
chrome plating worn off long ago -- the solid brass beneath beginning to
show through. The decision was, do I replace them or have them
rechromed?
Since the quality of workmanship was so fine, and
other than the finish there was nothing wrong with them, and after
pricing cowl vents of equal quality (there really were none, only of
equal function), I decided to have Chip Ahoy's
rechromed. Last spring that turned out to be not an option:
I'd have had to ship them off and wait for them to be returned, further
delaying my launch date. Despite appearance they still functioned,
so I put it off until the fall, when I'd have all winter to kill.
After
trailering out on October 26, 2006 for the winter, I removed the
cowl vents and shipped them off to
South Shore
Plating Co, Inc. I got them back on Dec. 4,
2006, and installed them on Dec. 17, over an unseasonably warm weekend. |
