Chroniclet:
It’s been smoother sailing for boaters everywhere since Lorain native Jeff Murray invented the Gauge Shade. During a fall fishing trip with a friend, Doug Cowart, in the Florida Keys, Murray noticed that the expensive LCD gauges on his friend’s boat were faded and yellowed by the sun.
The expensive instruments also became so foggy when exposed to the heat from direct sunlight that they were impossible to read.
While attempting to find something to help his friend at local marinas and on the Internet, he came up empty-handed. No one sold a product that could shade the gauges and remedy the boating dilemma.
So Murray decided to solve the problem himself. Thus, the Gauge Shade was born.
‘It was such a simple idea,’ he said. ‘I couldn’t believe no one had thought of it before.’
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