Practical Boat Owner

Replacing crazed portlights

My Beneteau 381 is now 24 years old: the time has flown by since we bought her 14 years ago and things are starting to need replacing.

Among them the Lewmar portlight lenses have crazed – as they all eventually do – and look unsightly. The hatch lights are the same.

I looked at the replacement costs of the portlight lenses and found the prices to be rather horrifying: £85-ish for the smaller ones and around £180 for the larger ones.

The portlights fitted

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