Show your helm!
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Moonstruck
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- Moonstruck
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- Sabre 42 Hardtop Express
MurrayM
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Richard W
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- anytime
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While low on snap & sizzle, bling, or the best / newest of anything, it's big on love...breakfast at the helm today consists of scambled eggs with pepperoni, pancakes, and coffee.
I like the view outside ... yammy too ...
MurrayM
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I like the view outside ... yammy too ...
Me-thinks it's the north end of Grenville Channel on BC's Inside Passage, and a Happy Yammy
Steve
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We drive from the F.B. about 95% of the time so at the lower helm I made a pipe extension for a standard pedestal to raise it to a comfortable position. It can easily be lowered to use as a salon chair as it is most of the time. I added a hand hold bar to have something to hang onto when it gets bumpy. Same instrumentation for both stations, except for an additional depth finder on FB.
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rochepoint
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- Roche Point
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- 1985 Cheer Men PT38 Sedan
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CPseudonym
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About the only picture I have that shows much of the helm. My middle son at the helm is serving in the Air Force currently stationed in SE Asia.
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- Now boatless - sold 6/2018
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- Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
My helm is…well…like me, pretty modest really. I like to think of it as not pretty, but functional. Catch the rear vision mirror. Very handy for anticipating being waked if one has sort of lost concentration a bit - no, not nodded off or I'd fall off the seat. Also good for taming the flowing locks after coming in out of the wind as well. Sorry, had to include the chain-counter - it's my only claim to having something most appear not to have.
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healhustler
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For all of the other aesthetic challenges Bucky may have the Pilothouse is not one of them.
Moonstruck
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Awwww, that's gotta be photo-shopped Heales, it's far too pristine...and you could never attract a chick like that...
Well, at least Larry has good taste in women.
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- FlyWright
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- 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
The helm's not much to look at....but I hardly notice.
Here's the flybridge helm on Beachcomber. There's seating for 12 so it's pretty comfortable even with a crowd on board...
Here's the lower helm. I almost never use it because it's so much more fun to drive from above...
Here's the helm from our 2010 Boston Whaler...
and one from our 1981 Boston Whaler that we just bought....
Here's the lower helm. I almost never use it because it's so much more fun to drive from above...
Here's the helm from our 2010 Boston Whaler...
and one from our 1981 Boston Whaler that we just bought....
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- Now boatless - sold 6/2018
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- Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
The helm's not much to look at....but I hardly notice.
Yeah, I'd feel right at home at that helm Al. The helms not that bad either...
