Cold Duck
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jul 8, 2022
- Messages
- 423
- Vessel Name
- Cold Duck
- Vessel Make
- MS 350 Trawler, 1997
Maybe someone can answer why MS put the radar on the flybridge? I know that's the preferred helm station, I use it most all the time. But, If Wx is so bad (foggy, cold, dark, rainy, etc) that I need the radar, I wanna be on the inside helm warming my bunns. I thought about setting up a second wire run to put a second display in the salon helm and be able to switch between the two or just move the display from the flybridge to salon, but haven't got it worked out yet. Am I the only one who wants to be inside when cold, foggy, windy to use the radar? Any suggestions short of installing a second radar?
Now I know that a lot of MS350/390s have totally enclosed upper helms. In Calif Delta/SF Bay, we want open air on flybridge 90% of the time. Use of radar is night when temps go down to the 50/60s (I know, a lot of you guys will call us wimps) or fog so thick you can't see end of boat. (Remember, Mark Twain said the "Coldest winter he ever experienced was a Summer in San Francisco"). That fog can cut through anything LOL.
Now I know that a lot of MS350/390s have totally enclosed upper helms. In Calif Delta/SF Bay, we want open air on flybridge 90% of the time. Use of radar is night when temps go down to the 50/60s (I know, a lot of you guys will call us wimps) or fog so thick you can't see end of boat. (Remember, Mark Twain said the "Coldest winter he ever experienced was a Summer in San Francisco"). That fog can cut through anything LOL.