The repair of the Spanish Galleon was quite challenging and rewarding. The window was fabricated by Atelier Gebrand Glas in the Netherlands and was based on a painting by Max Nauta. The window is around 20 years old and was poorly packaged for shipping and storage.

Six of the twenty broken pieces were shattered and were replaced with glass stained and painted to match the original. The other fourteen breaks were edge-glued to preserve the "hand of the artist". A custom bent steel bar grid was built to properly support the window and follow the leaded pattern so as to not disturb the design.

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