Hi again Steve, I always thought it's exciting when you can follow a ship from birth to death ... even though time goes quick do I get enough not to see it here die.

Best Regards
Bendt

Thanks Bendt.....Thought I'd balance up yours from the other end of a ships life! (Mind you, these are two years old already....where do the years go?)
Cheers.
Steve.

Hi Steve, it's a great series, and congratulations with all three. at the top..

Best Regards
Bendt

This series of bridge pics amaze me. Radar, autopilot, VHF, clear-view and a kettle, with an echo-sounder in the chart room seemed to have everything on the wish-list ticked off on vessels I sailed on.

Always comes down to money !!!! but the difference between windows with such screens and none,,special when taken from the back of the bridge is not unsual for me

Yes, I can see a black-line-frame of something like an additional screen or sheet, but the difference is just so..."great".....
All the windows in the above photo are (I'm sure)on the same plane: yet the view is so extremely different.....amazingly so. And if it's that good, why not fit all the windows with the same "gizmo".....that's what's puzzling me: Is it a question of cost?

Pata,,btw.. it looks like a flap down sunscreen,, like in buses,,where the busdriver has those movable sunscreens. This one looks to me like a flap down all other windows seems not to have them. The bulkers I sail all have on all windows retractable sunscreens

Yes, I remember well the kits you could buy to ward off ice on the back window....or even keep it demisted on muggy days of high humidity.(Switched off during back seat activity obviously.)
The thing here is that I only noticed this as I uploaded the photos today. It seems the camera has caught the different glass qualities that I failed to notice on the day.
Pardon the pun, but: "Can anyone throw any light on this" (Ouch!)
I dunno...has there been some breakthrough that is as yet not common knowledge?

Usually nowadays it is just a see through sun screen which blocks bridgt sun but does not "enhance" the view. What I see here looks to me like a "fog" cover. Don,t know really how it is called in english or in german, but when I grew up often older cars with no rear window heater ,one could "glue-in" a piece like that which kept the window icefree in winter like a heating pad, I never had anything like that on a ship during my 38 years at sea but sure could work like that.

Can anyone inform us as to how the central bridge window, the "Helmsmans" window has been treated: Take a look at all these wheelhouse photos: In each case that window provides a better view externally & is lesser affected, shall we say, by the strong sunlight. It was not tinted,I remember that it didn't strike me on the day as any different to the others... so, that's not the simple answer....is it "polarized" or is there some other "new" treatment that allows this?
Or: Is it simply some filter that can be hung over any window?
If so, it must be pretty expensive, otherwise why only the one window?
(In this photo: the effect is stark: You can see all the detail of the deck crane outside, but only in that one window.) In another,it does seem there is a "filter" being used.... Mmmmm?