Visibility

[Marc1]

I have a little 22' pocket cruiser that lives on a river and bobs around with family and friends. It performs well for what we have her, but suffers from the classic problem of poor visibility.

I changed the pedestal and seat to be able to sit higher, and that helped.

I placed a black fabric on the dash to avoid reflection of the white hull material on the inside of the windscreen, and that helped a bit too.

However i still get a lot of reflection when I have the sun in front or on the side. The reflection is on the glass that is flat and no amount of cleaning seems to help. If I get salt water on the glass it is just impossible to see when the sun is in front.

The other day i was squinting and sticking my head out the window as usual when I had an aha moment. i remembered the passenger launches when I was a kid all with a sort of visor on steroids over their flat windscreen. Would that be the reason for that ugly accessory?
Would that help me? It is an easy contraption to make, and I don't care much for looks. Here are a couple of the original boats of my youth, all built in the forties and fifties,

https://scontent.fsyd3-1.fna.fbcdn.n...3f&oe=5F3AC422

[Wotname]

Originally Posted by Marc1

.....
The other day i was squinting and sticking my head out the window as usual when I had an aha moment. i remembered the passenger launches when I was a kid all with a sort of visor on steroids over their flat windscreen. Would that be the reason for that ugly accessory?
Would that help me? It is an easy contraption to make, and I don't care much for looks. Here are a couple of the original boats of my youth, all built in the forties and fifties,
..........

Yes, that is the reason for the shade. Alternatively you can slope the glass forward at the top which keeps the sun off the surface of the glass with only a small overhanging shade (unless the sun is very low on the horizon). Sort of like an air traffic control tower.

[Marc1]

Yes, a forward leaning windscreen would be ideal, but to do that I would have to rebuild the cabin at an outrageous cost. May as well buy another boat
But a shade over it at the front I can manage. Bend a bit of aluminium tubing and stretch a piece of canvas over it.