With the help from fellow wooden boat owner Jan Skillingstead, a bevel was made at the corner of the main superstructure for the addition of the front window coaming. This is a feature commonly seen on pre-war cruisers, but had been removed from Maranee nearly forty years earlier.  Then, with assistance from Darren Olson, a good friend and restoration specialist at the Seattle Hydroplane Museum, three planks of Philippine mahogany were cut to a pattern template taken off of a sistership.  They were glued to match the original seams. The coaming was screwed into place and made flush with the original planking of the superstructure. Mahogany bungs were then used to fill the screw holes, shown above glued in place before being faired down to match the level of the planking.  Since the new Philippine mahogany is significantly lighter in color than the original wood used by Chris-Craft, repeated over-staining and color matching was necessary.