Windshield trim separated and tweaked the walkthrough alignment

[FliesAndFloats]

Long story short, I was out in Tampa Bay with my Maxum 2400 SD last weekend cruising along and hit an unusually large wave that hit pretty hard. The bottom screw on the windscreen brace that goes between the curved glass and the flat triangular piece pulled through and left about a 1/4" gap under the glass. This is on the port side that the walkthrough section is hinged to and fortunately the glass appears undamaged, just shifted. The walkthrough's alignment was upset from that as well to where I have to lift up pretty hard to get it to clear to open and close. The bimini top was attached at the time and I think the impact caused a fair amount of leverage against the top aluminum trim piece exerted from the bimini brace and pulled up on it.

It looks like I could probably remove the top section of aluminum from the windshield, reset the glass and put it back together, but I wanted to ask here before doing so in case I was about to find myself involved in a project that was way more difficult than it appears. Is there a source for the trim sections for these windshields or an illustrated parts catalog somewhere that lists this in case I need to find something in the future? I imagine that just about every 24' searay, maxum or bayliner from 2000 on uses the same parts so they've got to be available from somewhere.

Here is a picture of a similar boat. The damage is on my port side. It's the lower screw on that brace that sits between the curved section and the triangular section that came out. There doesn't appear to be any significant damage to the windscreen parts.

 

[Yegboats]

http://www.taylormarine.com/infobar/brochures/Glass_cat.pdf

http://www.taylormarine.com/hardware.html

Assuming your windshield is TM

 

[FliesAndFloats]

As an update, in case anyone else finds this post while experiencing a similar issue. It was absolutely impossible to get the windshield to get back into the rubber trim pieces, but things went together fairly easily by disassembling the windshield, attaching the rubber spline to the glass and then inserting the glass back into the aluminum pieces. If you break your windshield following these steps, I accept no liability, that I am a complete amateur and at times I felt like I might've been in over my head on this.

I removed the upper aluminum trim piece by removing the screw in the corner by the walkthrough, the remaining screw on the diagonal trim piece that went between the curved and the triangular pieces of glass, and the two screws in the bottom corner. Then I removed the triangular piece of glass. Be careful because with how my windshield had pulled the glass up from the bottom, it fell into the boat. If the curved piece has separated from the bottom, remove it too. I had a friend hold the walkthrough piece in place while I did the repair. I used spray silicone lubricant to help get the glass into the rubber spline, and the rubber spline back into the aluminum tracks. The unfortunate part about that is that the silicone lubricant also makes the spline want to fall off of the glass when you're attempting to reassemble it. It was still difficult to get the glass to seat all the way down in the aluminum trim pieces with the rubber spline on the glass; I tapped the edges of the glass with a large rubber mallet. Then I reinstalled the top aluminum railing and used the mallet to nudge it one way or the other to get the holes to line up for the screws. And by nudge, I pounded on it a bit. Once it was back together, the walkthrough lined up perfectly.

Now when it's rough, I stow the bimini top.