I just spent all day putting a small roof on the pilothouse of my boat. I did three times as much work as was necessary to put a roof on the pilothouse because I wanted a really salty looking sheer line. It involves a graceful arch at the rear then the roof line flares up and out forward of the steering station. The result is a saltier look, a panoramic view and wider field of vision through the raked pilothouse forward windows. I did the whole roof in eastern white cedar. Eastern white cedar is very light weight, light in color, is soft and bends easily. Even so, wood does not bend into compound curves worth a damn and requires sanding and fitting each piece. The job took three times as long as I could have done the job for but when I backed away from the boat, the look I wanted was evident and made all the work absolutely worth it. The boat looks salty as hell. Compound curves and arches also add greatly to the strength and ability to resist torsional loads caused by sea action. Increased strength through design allowed for decreases in weight up top. Graceful sheer lines and curves beats the Noah's Arc deckhouse look any day of the week. I am thrilled, I wasn't sure my design was going to be doable. The reason I used cedar instead of core construction for the pilothouse because the interior will be done as brightwork. I have already done the cabin ceiling in cedar as a replacement for the rotted coring and it is stunning. Now for the window frames. A guy gave me two sheets of 1/2" light smoke lexan. Its a bit overkill in thickness for a 26' boat but what the heck, the price was right. I am on a roll.