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> Despite being in a number
> of storms, including one where the waves were documented in excess of 40
> feet--and there were a number of times that these deckhouse windows were
> under water, we never broke a window in over 40,000 miles of open ocean
> voyaging. Generally windows or ports are broken when the boat falls off
a
> wave, more than when a wave breaks over the boat. I have observed boats
> where small ports in the hull were broken and larger windows were not.
>
ANOTHER SNIP
> Bob Austin
ONE MORE
Reply:
The major application for the plexiglass covers in our situation has been
protection from flying debris while in harbor during a hurricane. The
largest seas we've ever encountered were about 35 feet during hurricane
Andrew but we were 150 miles from land and putting up the shutteres didn't
even occur to me.
Andina Foster,
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