Lower helm visibility.

[Freeebird]

Wait, you mean someone is challenging Krush and I for the record for taking the longest to buy a boat?

I think your record is safe, but wasn't Krushter like 12 years old when he joined here?

[krush]

I think your record is safe, but wasn't Krushter like 12 years old when he joined here?

I think it might've been 10. Who knows. I'm still not sure who has the record...but I did end up buying a Hatt.


Back to the rear-view camera thing: Do you have it show on the screen as normal, or do you mirror image it (like on my RV) so the stuff on the right side of the screen is actually the starboard side of the boat.

[Freeebird]

I think it might've been 10. Who knows. I'm still not sure who has the record...but I did end up buying a Hatt.


Back to the rear-view camera thing: Do you have it show on the screen as normal, or do you mirror image it (like on my RV) so the stuff on the right side of the screen is actually the starboard side of the boat.

Mirror images are where the mirrors come in. I'm not sure I follow your question beyond that. Whatever you point your camera at is what's going to show up on the screen, but it's the same as what you see when using a backup camera like on a RV.

Most cameras are set to look at the port and starboard corners of the stern for docking purposes vs being rammed by a sailboat, aircraft carrier, PWC, LEO, UFO, or NHO (Non-Hatteras Owner).

[oscarvan]

So much love in this group! I will buy a boat, but again, I now have less than three years in the salt mines before I retire, and can unlock my tax deferred pot 'o gold and also have the time to do it right. I have owned several boats before so I have a "record".

No one wants to entertain the question if there are stabilized cameras for this purpose? I may have to fabricate something, at least with a lateral gimble....

As to the orientation of rear view cameras.... yes the "flip". If you were to take a regular camera and point it backwards, what's on port would be on the right side of the screen, and vice versa. As mentioned vehicle cameras flip so that what's on the left side of the screen is on the drivers side etc. Probably want to do that for a stern watch camera too.... so you don't have to do the flip in your mind and hurt your brains.

[Freeebird]

Is this your way of telling us we have about three more years of this?

[Avenger]

Is this your way of telling us we have about three more years of this?

That sounds like a fair summation.

[JD5652]

So much love in this group! I will buy a boat, but again, I now have less than three years in the salt mines before I retire, and can unlock my tax deferred pot 'o gold and also have the time to do it right. I have owned several boats before so I have a "record".

No one wants to entertain the question if there are stabilized cameras for this purpose? I may have to fabricate something, at least with a lateral gimble....

As to the orientation of rear view cameras.... yes the "flip". If you were to take a regular camera and point it backwards, what's on port would be on the right side of the screen, and vice versa. As mentioned vehicle cameras flip so that what's on the left side of the screen is on the drivers side etc. Probably want to do that for a stern watch camera too.... so you don't have to do the flip in your mind and hurt your brains.

I installed a "rear view" camera, but really only use it for docking. I have about a 15-20 ft view aft of my 58 LRC and can see the entire swim platform port-starboard... about 18 feet.

Here's what I went with … only the single camera... but you can get the system with up to four cameras...

https://www.rearviewsafety.com/safet...-rvs-4cam.html

[JD5652]

For perspective.... the RED LINE on the screen is about 3 feet behind the swim platform... the GREEN LINE on other side of the dock is about 12 feet...

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For perspective.... the RED LINE on the screen is about 3 feet behind the swim platform... the GREEN LINE on other side of the dock is about 12 feet...

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Very nice

[jim rosenthal]

Not for the first time, I agree with RAC. Radar is nice I suppose, but there's no substitute for being aware, as best you can, of what's around you.

Even at 25 knots, I've had boats climb up my tailpipes pretty quickly. A few anxious moments, trying to figure out which side they wanted to pass on, after they didn't answer the VHF. "one whistle or two, captain?"