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Originally Posted by karlinD
Thanks for the reply John. I look forward to sharing my experiences with this community in hopes of helping other PSC owners/lovers.
You and I have the same opinion about the large oval port lights. I still can't understand why the port lights are not bronze other than perhpas my boat was at the time chrome was being considered and the original owner could have made the chrome an option for the boat. The port lights look original and do not have any signs of being replacement. The chrome is no longer chrome but rather a faint hint of silver. I don't think the chrome is aftermarket or a coating applied after manufacture date because of the edges that show no sign of being taped and still have a silver type sheen. |
So, you are saying that they are oval portlights?
If so, and they have a chrome finish, that's a first in my experience. I think the most likely explanation is that an owner had them chromed, either originally or sometime later. There are companies that will do that.
I am not sure what your options would be for replacing them. The O.E.M. for the oval portlights was Whitewater Marine. I believe you can still order them from Whitewater. But since you will need to remove the current ones to install new ones, you might check into the price of having the current ones re-chromed. You could also take the opportunity to re-build them (new gaskets and lenses).
If identical replacement portlights are still available, it's really a price comparison between replacement and refurb. I think using a different portlight would involve a tremendous amount of prep work -- since the cut-outs for the large oval portlights are quite a bit larger than most of the replacement options I'm familiar with.