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Mys Terry wrote:


Sailboats tend to have the wheel in the center, and with a tiller, you
often switch from side to side. How come, if what you said above is
true? Haven't sailboats been around a lot longer than powerboats?


There are also many powerboats with wheels in the center, particularly
up on flying bridges where visibility thorugh most of the spectrum is
more easily achieved..
Almost nobody is building a new powerboat with the wheel to port these
days, while it was more common back in the 1950's and 1960's.


The Navigators still have the upper station to port, mainly because there's
a ladder leading up from inside the pilothouse just off center to starboard.
The pilothouse station is on the centerline.

RCE