Irish Rambler
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- Joined
- Apr 29, 2014
- Messages
- 1,812
- Location
- FRANCE
- Vessel Name
- 'Snow Mouse.'
- Vessel Make
- BROOM FLYBRIDGE 42.
Hi everyone, I hope this will be of interest to you.
I was watching a mature guy in a twin engine motor cruiser trying to dock his boat, he had 2 gear levers, 2 throttle levers and a bow thruster switch.
It was like watching a conductor of an orchestra, real sweet until it all went wrong, the more he tried to correct it, the more he got flustered, he became like a farmer trying to ride a racehorse, in the finish he'd damaged both his own boat and another on the pontoon behind him. Very costly...
That got me to thinking the problem through despite searching for answers from many techie type people at Morse, Teleflex, Seastar or whatever corporate name they choose for this year,disappointingly I got no straight answers and came up against a blank wall.
We've bought another boat and we wanted a bow thruster to make life easier for her ladyship and myself as the years advanced.
I wanted a combined single lever control with a bow thruster switch on it to make piloting the boat simple (I also didn't want to make a public spectacle of myself when docking the boat).
Morse make a single lever control with a trim switch for power boats, the CH series.
I shopped around and discussed my needs with Parks Masterson over at Hopcar marine, thankfully he quickly picked up my thinking and became enthusiastic and supplied me with 2 CH series combined controls and shipped them over to me, in budget, on time.
The result ? ? ?
Absolutely brilliant, simple, efficient one handed control over engine, gears & thruster with no drama's leaving the other hand free for steering.
Our new 'to us' cruiser has a long keel and to make her capable of being moved sideways I also 'fenced' the rudder.
The only problem I found was that the Vetus bow thruster had 4 wires and the CH series had 3, the solution was to fit a rocker switch from lower to upper helm, problem solved.
I hope this is helpful, if you need more details send me a message.
I was watching a mature guy in a twin engine motor cruiser trying to dock his boat, he had 2 gear levers, 2 throttle levers and a bow thruster switch.
It was like watching a conductor of an orchestra, real sweet until it all went wrong, the more he tried to correct it, the more he got flustered, he became like a farmer trying to ride a racehorse, in the finish he'd damaged both his own boat and another on the pontoon behind him. Very costly...
That got me to thinking the problem through despite searching for answers from many techie type people at Morse, Teleflex, Seastar or whatever corporate name they choose for this year,disappointingly I got no straight answers and came up against a blank wall.
We've bought another boat and we wanted a bow thruster to make life easier for her ladyship and myself as the years advanced.
I wanted a combined single lever control with a bow thruster switch on it to make piloting the boat simple (I also didn't want to make a public spectacle of myself when docking the boat).
Morse make a single lever control with a trim switch for power boats, the CH series.
I shopped around and discussed my needs with Parks Masterson over at Hopcar marine, thankfully he quickly picked up my thinking and became enthusiastic and supplied me with 2 CH series combined controls and shipped them over to me, in budget, on time.
The result ? ? ?
Absolutely brilliant, simple, efficient one handed control over engine, gears & thruster with no drama's leaving the other hand free for steering.
Our new 'to us' cruiser has a long keel and to make her capable of being moved sideways I also 'fenced' the rudder.
The only problem I found was that the Vetus bow thruster had 4 wires and the CH series had 3, the solution was to fit a rocker switch from lower to upper helm, problem solved.
I hope this is helpful, if you need more details send me a message.