Finished, and installed this just in time for the July 4th crowd at the lake. I still had all the cutters in the routers for an 18th Century sash run, so used some dry, treated Pine to make the sash from. Most have a copper roof, but that turns dark quickly, and is not so showy. I figured a white roof could be seen from way up the lake, so the roof has a couple of layers of fiberglass on it, and Sherwin-Williams Emerald gloss.
The top hinges to access the solar light. The slope of the cupola roof is exactly double the 18 degree slope of the boathouse. I had put a standing seam roof on the boathouse a few years ago. It's just a few hundred yards from our place.
The base with the louvers was all that was left of the old one, after a big storm, so I just built the new top to fit that base. The base was still completely solid.
The owners said it drew a stream of lookers in boats all weekend.
Sorry, still no quick and easy way, that I know of, to properly orient the pics here.
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