My slip neighbor here on Cape Cod had this system installed on his 51
foot SeaLine at the beginning of the season. The first time I saw him
using it, he was standing on the dock, moving the boat around as he tied
up the lines. He has both a stern and bow thruster, so moving the boat
around was a piece of cake.

At first I was a little skeptical about close quarter maneuvering with a
hand held set of joysticks, but I can see some big time advantages. Like
his boat, I can't see the stern of my Navigator from the top helm
station and need to have help sometimes with docking into a tight slip.
With the remote system I could simply walk to the rear of the
flybridge and see where the stern was relative to the finger piers or
main dock.

His boat has electronic shifts (transmission and throttle on one lever
each for the engines. Mine is hydraulic shifts and separate throttles.
According to the local installer, this presents no problem and the
system could be added.

Giving it some serious consideration.

Eisboch

On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 15:54:21 -0400, Eisboch
wrote:

My slip neighbor here on Cape Cod had this system installed on his 51
foot SeaLine at the beginning of the season. The first time I saw him
using it, he was standing on the dock, moving the boat around as he tied
up the lines. He has both a stern and bow thruster, so moving the boat
around was a piece of cake.

At first I was a little skeptical about close quarter maneuvering with a
hand held set of joysticks, but I can see some big time advantages. Like
his boat, I can't see the stern of my Navigator from the top helm
station and need to have help sometimes with docking into a tight slip.
With the remote system I could simply walk to the rear of the
flybridge and see where the stern was relative to the finger piers or
main dock.

His boat has electronic shifts (transmission and throttle on one lever
each for the engines. Mine is hydraulic shifts and separate throttles.
According to the local installer, this presents no problem and the
system could be added.

Giving it some serious consideration.

Let us know if you do.

While this may seem a little silly, there are times on my Contender
where something like this would be handy - as in standing on the T-top
Cobia stand while two or three folks are fishing - you could position
the boat exactly where it was needed even to backing down on a bigger
tuna.

I don't know if they make this sytem for outboards though.

Take care.

Tom

"The beatings will stop when morale improves."
E. Teach, 1717