odd helm configuration
 

http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

odd helm configuration
 

Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?



What a good-looking boat!

If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:

1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.

2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.

3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.

4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.

Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.

Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the shed?

odd helm configuration
 

On Jun 3, 12:04*pm, "Jim" wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the boat..
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the mfr..
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

That vent IS ugly that's for sure, looks like an afterthought. But,
now that you mention it, that boat sure does look uncomfortable for
anything other that flat calm when you can stand up.

odd helm configuration
 

On Jun 3, 12:20*pm, HK wrote:
Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

What a good-looking boat!

If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:

1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.

2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.

3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.

4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.

Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.

Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the shed?

Those are pre-engineered bents, the cheapest building you can get, and
you get what you pay for.

odd helm configuration
 

wrote in message
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On Jun 3, 12:20 pm, HK wrote:
Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the
boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to
allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the
mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a
leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

What a good-looking boat!

If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:

1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.

2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.

3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.

4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.

Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.

Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the shed?

Those are pre-engineered bents, the cheapest building you can get, and
you get what you pay for.

Perfect shelter for a cheaply built workboat.

Imagine that Hairbrains swivel seats allow him to position them forward
enough to position his shins up against the back of the console and his
knees straddleing the wheel. Now, if he is sitting in the chair, he would
have to bend forward slightly to reach the bottom of the wheel. This doesn't
seem like it would be a comfortable driving position for anyone but a
hunchback or orangutan.

So that ugly block screwed to the side of the boat is a fuel vent cover. I
doubt there are dozens of boats that they can be found on, Parkers excepted.

odd helm configuration
 

On Jun 3, 1:39 pm, "Jim" wrote:
wrote in message

...
On Jun 3, 12:20 pm, HK wrote:



Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the
boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to
allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the
mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a
leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

What a good-looking boat!

If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:

1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.

2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.

3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.

4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.

Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.

Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the shed?

Those are pre-engineered bents, the cheapest building you can get, and
you get what you pay for.

Perfect shelter for a cheaply built workboat.

Imagine that Hairbrains swivel seats allow him to position them forward
enough to position his shins up against the back of the console and his
knees straddleing the wheel. Now, if he is sitting in the chair, he would
have to bend forward slightly to reach the bottom of the wheel. This doesn't
seem like it would be a comfortable driving position for anyone but a
hunchback or orangutan.

So that ugly block screwed to the side of the boat is a fuel vent cover. I
doubt there are dozens of boats that they can be found on, Parkers excepted.

We can clearly now see who wants to improve the tone of this NG and
who the troll are.

Imagine that!

odd helm configuration
 

JimH wrote:
On Jun 3, 1:39 pm, "Jim" wrote:
wrote in message

...
On Jun 3, 12:20 pm, HK wrote:



Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg
I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the
boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to
allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the
mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a
leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?
What a good-looking boat!
If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:
1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.
2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.
3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.
4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.
Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.
Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the shed?
Those are pre-engineered bents, the cheapest building you can get, and
you get what you pay for.

Perfect shelter for a cheaply built workboat.

Imagine that Hairbrains swivel seats allow him to position them forward
enough to position his shins up against the back of the console and his
knees straddleing the wheel. Now, if he is sitting in the chair, he would
have to bend forward slightly to reach the bottom of the wheel. This doesn't
seem like it would be a comfortable driving position for anyone but a
hunchback or orangutan.

So that ugly block screwed to the side of the boat is a fuel vent cover. I
doubt there are dozens of boats that they can be found on, Parkers excepted.

We can clearly now see who wants to improve the tone of this NG and
who the troll are.

Imagine that!


Florida Jim is an ignorant troll wherever he posts.

odd helm configuration
 

Jim wrote:

wrote in message
...
On Jun 3, 12:20 pm, HK wrote:
Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of
the boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The
helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to
allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at
the mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a
leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

What a good-looking boat!

If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:

1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.

2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.

3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.

4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.

Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.

Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the
shed?

Those are pre-engineered bents, the cheapest building you can get, and
you get what you pay for.

Perfect shelter for a cheaply built workboat.

Imagine that Hairbrains swivel seats allow him to position them forward
enough to position his shins up against the back of the console and his
knees straddleing the wheel. Now, if he is sitting in the chair, he
would have to bend forward slightly to reach the bottom of the wheel.
This doesn't seem like it would be a comfortable driving position for
anyone but a hunchback or orangutan.

So that ugly block screwed to the side of the boat is a fuel vent cover.
I doubt there are dozens of boats that they can be found on, Parkers
excepted.


You know, crap-for-brains, I don't recall you ever posting a photo of
any boat you claim to own. I'll bet it is a real p.o.s., just like
everything else about you and yours...right?

odd helm configuration
 

Jim wrote:


Perfect shelter for a cheaply built workboat.


Uh huh. Where, crap-for-brains, did you get the idea that the shed in
question belonged to me?

It's just one of the many rigging sheds on the premises of my boat
dealer. There's room in this particular shed for three boats on trailers
to be rigged simultaneously. There are at least four other large steel
buildings for rigging on the premises, and a double wide concrete fresh
water filled ramp to test engines on their boats.

My "shed" is an old tobacco barn that "conveyed" with my land purchase:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...me/Oldbarn.jpg

Since this photo was taken, I've had the rotted boards replaced. But
it's still just an old tobacco barn, home for some farm implements and
in the winter, families of woodland critters.

If you were to find yourself homeless, I couldn't let you move in...the
critters would object to your stench.

odd helm configuration
 

On Jun 3, 1:46*pm, JimH wrote:
On Jun 3, 1:39 pm, "Jim" wrote:





wrote in message

...
On Jun 3, 12:20 pm, HK wrote:

Jim wrote:
http://i29.tinypic.com/2nukjfd.jpg

I know your eye will be drawn to the thing screwed to the side of the
boat.
Drag your eyes away from that and concentrate on the helm.
In the photo the wheel is showed laying over almost horizontal. The helm
pedestal seats seem to be positioned too far away from the wheel to
allow
steering while seated unless you steer with your feet. I looked at the
mfr.
website and all the photos show the helmsman standing in front of a
leaning
post, not pedestal seats.
What gives?

What a good-looking boat!

If you knew anything about boats, crap-for-brains, you'd know that:

1. The "thing" is a custom molded fiberglass fuel vent cover, held in
with stainless fasteners, and vented towards the stern. It's almost flat
against the hull. My Parker 2520XL had a similar vent. I've seen similar
vents on dozens of new boats.

2. The destroyer wheel in the photo seems quite a few degrees off
horizontal, so saying it is "almost" horizontal is a bit of a stretch.

3. The helm pedestal seats seem to have "adjusters" underneath them,
one, a lever, to allow the seats to move fore and aft and another, a
knob, that would control seat swivel.

4. I would suspect the manufacturer offers customers the option of
ordering a leaning post or swivel seats.

Thanks for demonstrating that when it comes to boats, you don't know
your ass from a can of shoe polish.

Oh...what do you think of the steel beams holding up the roof of the shed?

Those are pre-engineered bents, the cheapest building you can get, and
you get what you pay for.

Perfect shelter for a cheaply built workboat.

Imagine that Hairbrains swivel seats allow him to position them forward
enough to position his shins up against the back of the console and his
knees straddleing the wheel. Now, if he is sitting in the chair, he would
have to bend forward slightly to reach the bottom of the wheel. This doesn't
seem like it would be a comfortable driving position for anyone but a
hunchback or orangutan.

So that ugly block screwed to the side of the boat is a fuel vent cover. I
doubt there are dozens of boats that they can be found on, Parkers excepted.

We can clearly now see who wants to improve the tone of this NG and
who the troll are.

Imagine that!- Hide quoted text -

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Yep, a boating related post, what a shame!