Adjustable windshield and canopy for a boat

An adjustable windshield, adapted for use with a boat having a deck, a bow, a stern, and gunwales, the windshield comprising:

• a windshield element, having bottom and top edges, which is sufficiently wide to extend substantially across the bow of the boat;
• means movably and directly connecting the bottom edge of the windshield element to the deck of the boat in the vicinity of the bow thereof, such that the windshield element moves about the connecting means at the deck of the boat between a first stowed position adjacent the gunwales aft of the connecting means, and a second position angularly removed from the first position;
• elongated support means movably connected at one end thereof to the windshield element;
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• means connecting the other end of the elongated support means to the boat in such a manner that the said other end is capable of moving longitudinally of the boat a selected distance so that the windshield element may be raised and lowered about the connecting means accordingly.