Clear or tinted cabin windows?

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Hi all - having struggled to see through crazed cabin coachroof windows last season, I have taken them out for refurb.

Question is, should I go for clear or tinted perspex/acrylic replacement? Any experiences or comments on this from anyone?
 
Tinted... It makes a significant difference as to how easily people can see in.
 
tinted

My IP 24 is fitted with tinted windows,wouldnt have been my choice but pleasantly surprised as daylight enters cabin and as has been mentioned before privacy at all times !
 
Oh dear - I fitted clear perspex when I did mine three years ago, as I didn't like the tinted(and neither did SWMBO) but we do have curtains.
 
Another vote for tinted, although I have clear laminated glass & wouldn't change to tinted as I don't want the reduction in interior light levels. But I suspect that the light loss through your existing crazed perspex may be greater than thro new (lightly) tinted perspex.
 
My Bruce Roberts ketch needs a complete set of new windows and the 3 hatches re-glazing.

Being steel, the alloy frames have rotted so I am thinking of fitting frameless replacements, simply bolting the acrylic direct to the steel (with sealing strip) as suggest by the company below. If its good enough for the RNLI, its good enough for me and doesn't look too cheapskate to me!

http://hadlo-43547-001.dsvr.co.uk/Pages/Introduction.html

Cut to size 15mm acrylic for the hatches is very reasonably priced too.

Ian
 
Just re done mine in what I thought would be a lighter tint than the old crazed ones that came out. When they went in they still looked as dark from the outside, but its very light inside and they are easy to see out of.

IanJ99 - Mine are framelss as standard. I think they will be less hassel in the long run, i.e. if they leak, then one doesnt have to spend time trying to fix the frame, as well as cleaning and resealing the glass in the frame, and the frame to the hull.


Tinted I would say.
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Well mine are clear and work OK for me, with curtains. Or without curtains, folk shouldn't be looking in, pervy bar stewards.

Me dad has a Jeanneau deck saloon jobbie and that can get a good bit of solar heating even in Jockland, in the season. The windows do wrap round though.

So consider privacy and how warm your little ship will get, though to be fair, you need big windows to get warm, especially in higher latitudes.
 
West Coast said:
Hi all - having struggled to see through crazed cabin coachroof windows last season, I have taken them out for refurb.

Question is, should I go for clear or tinted perspex/acrylic replacement? Any experiences or comments on this from anyone?
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Not quite sure what this is about, but if it is of any interest: some years ago my wife put some smoke grey film on our windows. Apart from the privacy gained during daylight, I was astonished to find that the cabin temperatures on boiling hot sunlit days fell to a pleasant warmth.
 
Be careful that the tint doesn't change the colour of external nav lights when viewed from inside (in case you nav from inside) which I do as I've a pilot house with interior helm.

rob
 
Thanks all - tinted is my preference but just wondered if I had missed anything. They are only narrow cabin coachroof windows, not pilothouse or wheelhouse windows, so navigation issues should not arise.
 
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