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Originally Posted by markpierce
In the past I've been made fun of for having forward-leaning pilothouse windows. Hope that phase has passed.
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First of all - I greatly appreciate the
actual sea keeping reason for forward raking North Sea Windows. Although, just for appearance sake, I better like the rear leaning windshield look... I would like our Tolly to have the forward leaners.
As has been mentioned in other posts: For pleasure boats their usefulness of keeping sun-glare off the helm gauges is a useful feature... but that's certainly not their initially intended feature.
The reason this forward rake windshield design came into vogue for ocean going vessels is depicted in its words "
North Sea Windows" - you know - The
North Sea where storms often create horrendous breaking wave sea conditions - over the bow.
Forward leaning window rake was accomplished for deterrence of breaking waves smashing down onto and through rear leaning windows.