Amazing! Been wanting a pilothouse on my 228 since I got it 6 years ago. I started a few thread about it. Your build is the best documented, maybe only one! I need to find a local builder but I hope he would get the lines right like yours, it's not easy to do, easy to make them look like crap!
Getting the lines "right" was some work. There were a few mistakes made:
a) The radio box is too close to the windows, there is space there but not enough to get the screws in the top of the windows. I need to make some square head screws about 6 or 7mm to snug up the tops of the windows. Would be easier if we had left a 2 inch gap.
b) If you look at
http://mcvoy.com/lm/228-pilot/12.html look at where the pilot house stops and the boat starts towards the rear, at the wall of the cabin. See how the cabin wall slopes back and then becomes vertical? I should have started the curve of the pilot house from the vertical on the cabin wall? Why? A little more shelter might be nice but the real reason is that I liked to turn the passenger chair sideways, facing the helm, sit in it, and put my feet on the helm seat. Lets me look forward and backwards while trolling. I can't do that because the structure of the wall is made from tubes, see here:
The tubes are flush with the outside wall but stick into the pilot house. This takes space away from the interior and makes it impossible to turn the seat. I think if the curve was moved back a bit, the seat thing may have worked. On the other hand, you'd have to extend the roof further back to make the curve work and that would start to make the rod holders on the roof be useless for most people because you can't stand on the fish boxes to get to them. Would have been barely ok for me, I'm 6'2" but not for some of the people I fish with.
c) I put 3 rod holders on the rear tubes, the top ones are useless, leave those off.
Other than that, it's great, very pleased with it. I'm happy I didn't go the powder coat path, would have saved me $10K but I'd be redoing it in 3 years, this paint is like what Grady uses, should last me my lifetime.
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