Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt

Yeah, I definitely agree. Excluding the one step too far
windshield idea, the rest of the boat is just too cool! I knew
nothing about my boat when I bought it. I just instantly fell in
love with it's "look". The 50's/60's shape/form of it, and those
great (albeit cracked) navigation lights built into the sides of the
hull instead of a single light on the point of the bow like usual.
And that was on the trailer. Once finally having it in the water
and seeing it floating - it looked even better. Now if I could just
get it running.

On May 6, 2009, at 8:47 AM, Lee K. Shuster (lks) wrote:

> Yeah it is a bordering on Rube Goldberg - Buck Rodgers. If you only
> isolate that one design feature. But taken as a whole the 17 was an
> amazing break through design.
>
> But when OMC designed the 17 the were really stretching the envelope
> in all areas. Perhaps they were inspired by Dorsett Marine, who
> contracted with the famous industrial designer, Raymond Loewy. Jump
> over to fiberglassics.com and check them out. Dorsett had an
> innovative windshield design that tilted manually. From a practical
> standpoint there are areas of the country where allowing in some air
> is helpful. While not very graceful, it also allows someone (small
> kid maybe?) to scamper into the boat from the bow, as in when you
> back down the ramp and the boat starts floating slowly away with no
> line attached.
>
> Or maybe after they designed that wonderful aluminum frame and
> safety glass windshield (years ahead of the flimsy plexiglass
> windshilelds commonly seen in the late fifties-early sixties)
> because they just wanted a WOW-UH-AH factor to show off at boat
> shows? Who knows?
>
> The Deluxe 17 really did bring turn-key automotive t ype technolgy
> to family recreational boating. Everything was already there, like
> it had been planned from the beginning! Did they over do it? You be
> the judge. When you think about the whole line of OMC boats had
> pretty nifty windshields, but they did get more conventional as time
> went on.
>
> Lee Shuster
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "jd" <jdood@...>
> To: "Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's" <omc-boats@...
> >
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 7:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt
>
>
>> i've never quite got the logic behind this tilting windshield idea.
>> isn't that the point of a windshield, so wind doesn't hit you in
>> the face? and even without it tilted, a boat is basically a
>> convertible car. plenty of breeze blowing you in the face
>> anyway. maybe i'm missing something.
>>
>> 2 yrs ago i completely disassembled my windsheild's tilt motor,
>> lubed it, reassembled - and it still squeaked, jammed up, and
>> blew the fuse. haven't tried to tilt it since.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On May 5, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Lee Shuster wrote:
>>
>>> Here's a photo that shows off the Deluxe 17's cool windshield:
>>>
>>> http://www.ultimate.com/omc-boats/gallery/lee.shuster/omc17/0.jpg
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: omc-boats-bounces@... [mailto:omc-boats-bounces@...
>>> ] On Behalf Of Lee Shuster
>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:47 AM
>>> To: Evinrude & Johnson Boats of the 1960's and 70's
>>> Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt
>>>
>>> Check out the photos of the OMC/Deluxe 17 in the Brochure section
>>> of Phil's website.
>>>
>>> The Safety Glass windshield on the Deluxe 17 and Dual 17 was power
>>> operated (hinged at top) to allow for ventilation. This probably
>>> inspired the fold-flat (MANUAL) windshield that first appeared on
>>> the 14-ft Playboy/Caprice and a year later on the 19-ft'ers.
>>>
>>> Pretty cool.
>>>
>>> Lee
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: omc-boats-bounces@... [omc-boats-bounces@...
>>> ] On Behalf Of BLDFW [bldfw@...]
>>> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:22 PM
>>> To: omc-boats@...
>>> Subject: Re: [OMC-Boats] Windscreen tilt
>>>
>>> Not heard of a windscreen tilt motor option. How's it work?
>>>
>>> -Bill
>>> Dallas, TX
>>> 1970 Evinrude Explorer - 155 V6 OMC Sterndrive http://www.photobucket.com/evinrude_explorer
>>>
>>>
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>>> 1. Re: 1964 OMC Johnson Deluxe - Wiring Diagram? (lks@...)
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>>>
>>> Jeff, does you Deluxe have the windscreen tilt motor? That's
>>> important because I believe there should be a single GREEN 12 ga
>>> wire that runs from the ammeter's (+) GEN side and connects to
>>> the WINDSHIELD TILT MOTOR Circuit Breaker. This should be a
>>> single replaceable wire, not part of any cable assembly. This
>>> wire should connect to the Ammeter terminal nearest the
>>> centerline of the boat, close to the speedometer, tucked behind
>>> the fuse block and the other end to the Windshield Tilt Motor
>>> Circuit breaker.
>>>
>>> The remaining ammeter wire (connects nearest the fuel gage)
>>> should be a 14 ga BROWN and it should connect to the IGNITION
>>> Switch. It should be bundled into the "main" instrument panel
>>> harness assembly that interconnects the tach, fuel gage, ammeter,
>>> and Ignition switch.
>>>
>>> Also, I forgot the DeLuxe dashboard has three small terminal
>>> blocks (sometimes called busses), just above the fuel guage and
>>> ammeter, The outer two are Positive (+) while the center block is
>>> (-) Neg or ground. These are in addition to the Fuse block, which
>>> also has a grounding buss.
>>>
>>> One smart thing OMC did on the DeLUXE that they dropped from later
>>> models, they used a resettable circuit breaker on the tilt motor
>>> circuit. On most models like my 66 Sportsman they didn't protect
>>> it at all, later on (69-up ?) the put in a fusible link in the
>>> high current supply line to the tilt relays.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps.. I'm digging thru my junk lookming for a Deluxe
>>> schematic for you. No promises, however.
>>>
>>> Lee Shuster
>>>
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