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Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg [message #95772]

Fri, 13 August 2010 23:55

Mike O'Connell

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Location: Deerfield MA

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After two years in drydock we set sail for a relatively short trip to Old Orchard Beach, ME. I decided that taking secondary roads was the way to go on our maiden voyage. That proved to be my undoing. I grossly overestimated my RV piloting skills and put the rear wheels over an unseen curb on a backroad 14 miles into the trip. All I heard was a bang and suddenly I was covered I glass chips. I have a Xmas tree shaped set of cracks on the driver's side window about. Five inches from the end of the wndow and arc shaped crack in the same vicinity on the passenger side. I guess it was enough to twist things enough to crack the windows. Does this seem right?
I'm stillonvacation and have't done much research on new windshields yet.both cracks are outside the wiper arc and I can still drive it fine. Does anyone have a suggestion for replacement?

Mike O'Connell Deerfield, MA '75 Eleganza

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		Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Mike O'Connell on Fri, 13 August 2010 23:55
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Dan Borlase on Sat, 14 August 2010 00:21
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: 980 on Sat, 14 August 2010 00:59
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Rusty on Sat, 14 August 2010 05:40
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		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Mr ERFisher on Sat, 14 August 2010 09:29
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Bob de Kruyff on Sat, 14 August 2010 12:27
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Ken Henderson on Sat, 14 August 2010 16:01
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Bob de Kruyff on Sat, 14 August 2010 22:26
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		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Bob de Kruyff on Sat, 14 August 2010 12:33
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Steven Ferguson on Sat, 14 August 2010 12:55
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: JohnL455 on Sat, 14 August 2010 22:51
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Mike O'Connell on Mon, 16 August 2010 17:54
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: KRDietz on Mon, 16 August 2010 18:05
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: ljdavick on Mon, 16 August 2010 19:51
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		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Ken Henderson on Mon, 16 August 2010 21:12
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Ken Burton on Tue, 17 August 2010 01:08
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		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Ken Burton on Wed, 18 August 2010 15:15
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: cbwoodsr on Wed, 18 August 2010 15:51
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		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: mike miller on Tue, 17 August 2010 00:57
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: Ken Burton on Tue, 17 August 2010 00:48
		Re: Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: mike miller on Tue, 17 August 2010 01:03
		Re: [GMCnet] Maiden voyage... Struck an iceberg By: James Hupy on Tue, 17 August 2010 03:39
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