Saw these on a friends Allmand 31 and can't for the life of me remember
the name. These covering replaced conventional blinds/drapes. The
product consisted of two thin layers of plastic custom cut for size, that
mounted on the interior surface of your cabin windows/ports. Their design
allowed the one layer to be slid a certain amount sideways over the other.
Each layer of plastic had alternating bands etched to opacity in their
surfaces. Depending on alignment the bands would either admit or not admit
vision into/out of the cabin. Anyone seen these and/or remember the name?
Cheers

prodigal1 wrote:
Saw these on a friends Allmand 31 and can't for the life of me remember
the name. These covering replaced conventional blinds/drapes. The
product consisted of two thin layers of plastic custom cut for size, that
mounted on the interior surface of your cabin windows/ports. Their design
allowed the one layer to be slid a certain amount sideways over the other.
Each layer of plastic had alternating bands etched to opacity in their
surfaces. Depending on alignment the bands would either admit or not admit
vision into/out of the cabin. Anyone seen these and/or remember the name?
Cheers
They're called peek-a-boo shutters.
http://www.zarcor.com/Peek%20a%20Booo/Index.html
krj

I became infatuated with them when I saw them at a boat show and got a
few for my hatches. They were a bit more of a pain, and less of a
feature than I had hoped. I still use a couple, one because I'm too
lazy to take it out, the one over the shower is nice to have.

What has turned out far better for us are OceanAir Surface SkyScreens.
We got 3, then 2 more. They are easy to install, and appear custom
fitted to our hatches. One shade is opaque, which keeps the cabin a
lot cooler when we're not there, and the other is a bug screen. they
clip together magnetically, so you can have any combination.

A number of companies carry them, we bought from a RI place:
www.SSFabricProducts.com

The price is only a little more then what I saw on the supplied link
for the other product, about $150 per hatch. They usually run "boat
show specials," we bought at the Newport Show. We needed an extra
piece of plastic, I think the called it a "liner" which slides in
around the hatch to cover the part exposed when the hatch liner is
removed. The liner had to be trimmed with a scissors, and four small
screws hold the shade

http://uk.oceanair.co.uk/da/10495

prodigal1 wrote:
Saw these on a friends Allmand 31 and can't for the life of me remember
the name. These covering replaced conventional blinds/drapes. The
product consisted of two thin layers of plastic custom cut for size, that
mounted on the interior surface of your cabin windows/ports. Their design
allowed the one layer to be slid a certain amount sideways over the other.
Each layer of plastic had alternating bands etched to opacity in their
surfaces. Depending on alignment the bands would either admit or not admit
vision into/out of the cabin. Anyone seen these and/or remember the name?
Cheers

I have the peek a boos on all my opening ports and on two long side
windows that cant inward, but not on the overhead hatches. They work
fine for us, with one minor exception. The long side window shades are
rather heavy and after about a year in the 20 degree North latitude
sun, they started to detach from the window. There are glue backed
velcro dots that stick to the window and to the shade.

I called the company and asked what glue to use to reglue them and
they said they would simply mail me a free bunch of new dots, and how
many would I like. I had a visitor coming down from the states who
could bring them so that worked for me that time.

My advice is that if you are taking them cruising out of the US, bring
along a bunch of spare dots. Oh yeah, remember where you stow them...

I'm going to look into the Sky Screens for the overhead hatches.



On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:28:03 -0400, Jeff wrote:

I became infatuated with them when I saw them at a boat show and got a
few for my hatches. They were a bit more of a pain, and less of a
feature than I had hoped. I still use a couple, one because I'm too
lazy to take it out, the one over the shower is nice to have.

What has turned out far better for us are OceanAir Surface SkyScreens.
We got 3, then 2 more. They are easy to install, and appear custom
fitted to our hatches. One shade is opaque, which keeps the cabin a
lot cooler when we're not there, and the other is a bug screen. they
clip together magnetically, so you can have any combination.

A number of companies carry them, we bought from a RI place:
www.SSFabricProducts.com

The price is only a little more then what I saw on the supplied link
for the other product, about $150 per hatch. They usually run "boat
show specials," we bought at the Newport Show. We needed an extra
piece of plastic, I think the called it a "liner" which slides in
around the hatch to cover the part exposed when the hatch liner is
removed. The liner had to be trimmed with a scissors, and four small
screws hold the shade

http://uk.oceanair.co.uk/da/10495

prodigal1 wrote:
Saw these on a friends Allmand 31 and can't for the life of me remember
the name. These covering replaced conventional blinds/drapes. The
product consisted of two thin layers of plastic custom cut for size, that
mounted on the interior surface of your cabin windows/ports. Their design
allowed the one layer to be slid a certain amount sideways over the other.
Each layer of plastic had alternating bands etched to opacity in their
surfaces. Depending on alignment the bands would either admit or not admit
vision into/out of the cabin. Anyone seen these and/or remember the name?
Cheers