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Tomas Kruska
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Initially Posted - 04/11/2011 :  12:46:40  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
Looking for original curtains with tracks for all windows. Fabric can be worn or torn. I need mainly the tracks and fabric holders + dimensions of the curtains as a template.

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Prospector
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Response Posted - 04/12/2011 :  06:01:35  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
Thomas, I think you would be disappointed with them when you got them. Each window has two basic plastic rails with sliders for teh curtains to ride in.

The curtains are mostly good for trapping spiders and dust and growing mold.

Smoked lexan windows may be a better way to go, with removable velcro shades.
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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 04/12/2011 :  07:39:22  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
Hm... I have smoked plexiglass already, but when you are in marina at night and you will turn on the interior lights you cannot be as naked as you wish. Don't even try to tell my wife

I have some kind of curtains but I would like to have that original ones. I suppose that rails has the snap on buttons?

I tried to find similar profile, but was not successful here. Maybe if someone could make a detail picture of the rails with dimensions and details of the sliders?
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John Russell
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Response Posted - 04/12/2011 :  08:20:42  Show Profile
When I lived in Germany a number of years ago, we had lightweight curtains on our windows the were hung from narrow tracks with plastic slides. The slides looked like smaller versions of the slides on the luff of the mains'l. Rather than checking chandleries, maybe you could find tracks that would fit properly at the local drapery store?
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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 04/12/2011 :  08:27:58  Show Profile
I just got done removing the tracks. The curtains were torn and the tracks were screwed in, but sagging between screws. Looked horrible, so I removed it all.
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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 04/12/2011 :  10:40:57  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
NautiC25: trash it over here please
Have you removed also that track above the toilet?
How much do you want? Bottle of Czech wine?
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OJ
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Response Posted - 04/13/2011 :  03:57:57  Show Profile
FWIW, someone at our marina made some brackets and stretched stainless steel stranded wire across the top and bottom of the windows. The wire ran through pockets (term?) they sewed into the curtains. Looked quite like the originals but without stitching on all those plastic sliders.
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NautiC25
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Response Posted - 04/13/2011 :  05:50:41  Show Profile
I'm pretty sure shipping would be more than they're worth. The rails are 6' long. I may be able to get you curtain lengths.

Check out sailrite. They have several curtain track options, and materials to create durable curtains.
http://search.sailrite.com/category/roller-shade-systems-awning-track-marine-canvas-curtain-tracks
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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 04/13/2011 :  12:41:54  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
Yes I know... great distance. Anyway thanks for inspiration.
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Arlington
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Response Posted - 04/14/2011 :  22:52:09  Show Profile
Tomas I have all my original curtains down, I replaced the missing slides, (my daughter sewed them on) CD has them in stock, Curtain Track Slide w/Eyelet (#Z2351) call & they will fix you up. I think they are about 50 cents each, but I only had a few missing. I washed the original curtains before I learned they are supposed to be dry cleaned. I can take a picture of the tracks. My guess is that CD has those too. The material really looks like a light canvas, that you could buy by the yard at your local fabric store. From CD the curtains are a fortune. Let me know if you still want measurements. For someone who sews, they would be easy to make. Just two lines of stitches.

(I was going to ask you to show me what it looks like through your smoked lexan, when it is dark outside & your wife is inside, a few photos would be fine. but okay I got distracted...so consider that I didn't comment on this...sorry I couldn't resist.)
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bigelowp
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Response Posted - 04/16/2011 :  06:50:47  Show Profile
CD used to offer replacement curtains. Also at one point I Googled and found a company that sells sailboat curtains and listed the C25 & C27. As I recall they looked like exact replacements but were pricy. I too have no curtains, have had replacing them on my "wish list" for years but, even when I replaced my cushions last year, have not found the need warranted the price.
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Tomas Kruska
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Response Posted - 05/02/2011 :  01:02:09  Show Profile  Visit Tomas Kruska's Homepage
FYI: CD new retrofit kit http://www.catalinadirect.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display& product_ID=2359& ParentCat=31
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