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Sportfish boats always had a lower station (check out Hemmingway's "Pilar" in "To Have and Have Not"); it was only in recent times--the mid-eighties--that the mainstream manufacturers did away with windshields so they could add more stuff (galley appliances & storage, TVs & stereos) to an otherwise underutilized volume of space.
Plus, windshields had a tendency to leak, esp. if there was a tuna tower above that wracked the house in a seaway.
The place across from the helm was known as 'the chart flat'...anyone remember charts?
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