Pilot house vs / Flybridge

[edward]

What percentage of you drive from the bridge vs pilot. House ?

 

[Captain Ralph]

What percentage of you drive from the bridge vs pilot. House ?

In over 20 years, I have been upstairs a half dozen times to drive the boat.
Spent more time up there cleaning and fixing things.
I have this dream to remove all that junk up there.

 

[Pascal]

Unless it s raining I pretty much always run from the FB except for docking

 

[jim rosenthal]

From the bridge, especially when docking, but my boat is only 36 feet.

 

[SEVEN]

99% from the fly bridge. I never had one with all my other boats. I’ll never go back. Love it.

 

[Sadey]

I prefer running from the flybridge as often as possible. I purposely have not enclosed it so I can enjoy the sounds and breeze.

 

[Freestyle]

We have aged from 90 percent flybridge to 90 percent pilot house and I miss the flybridge for all of the joyful reasons cited.

Skin cancer (because I was young and vain) has me in full length sleeves, trousers, hat, and buff whenever outside including the FB. Many of my fellow crew have even worse issues. The bimini only affords SPF 15ish protection and the reflection from the water and white fiberglass requires sun protection. So unless the boat is full of young people, we find ourselves knocking out long hours on cruise in the pilot house and salon.

An enclosed FB with a bed and head would be ideal for our current use profile. We could also benefit from a time travel machine if someone has one for the right price.

Bruce

Freestyle
1985 62 CPMY (54MY with ext)
Tampa

 

[rsmith]

Anything above Hull speed you need to be on the bridge looking out for debris and trap floats. Although at 9 kts it’s awful nice in the salon of a MY sitting on the bench seat steering with your feet. I never use the auto pilot if I’m on the boat I want to run it otherwise you’re just a passenger

 

[Timeless72]

This goes through my head a lot. We debated leaving the bridge off during refit and instead using the area for storage, solar, sun pad. However, the days we sit up there are well worth it. I guess. Maybe.

 

[Fanfare]

100% from the flybridge. (Except for lightning!) 360 degree view, constantly aware of breeze, much quieter than salon.

Replacement Bimini top is white on top, light blue underneath. Greatly reduced the glare and perhaps the reflected sun exposure. Other than the low windshield all open.

 

[rwaldrop13]

There's a 53 for sale in Cape Coral that has had it's price reduced several times. "Assisted Living". Flybridge has been completely removed, and from pictures I've seen, it's as if it was never there. However, boat davit and cradle are still there. If we were back in the market already I would look at it, but I really want a flybridge.

 

[jim rosenthal]

We have aged from 90 percent flybridge to 90 percent pilot house and I miss the flybridge for all of the joyful reasons cited.

Skin cancer (because I was young and vain) has me in full length sleeves, trousers, hat, and buff whenever outside including the FB. Many of my fellow crew have even worse issues. The bimini only affords SPF 15ish protection and the reflection from the water and white fiberglass requires sun protection. So unless the boat is full of young people, we find ourselves knocking out long hours on cruise in the pilot house and salon.

An enclosed FB with a bed and head would be ideal for our current use profile. We could also benefit from a time travel machine if someone has one for the right price.

Bruce

Freestyle
1985 62 CPMY (54MY with ext)
Tampa

I think we're all looking for that, Bruce. If you find one, maybe we could all get a volume discount.

 

[Jims43DC]

Fly bridge except while moving around at slip and pump out, single handed so have to be at helm station to get to lines

 

[dar636]

Flybridge whenever warm enough. I've purposely left it open except for a bimini as well... I'm up there by myself most of the time as the admiral never gets warm enough even in our short summers.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

75% Flybridge. Most times we're in the pilothouse but on nice warm days we are up top. We call those flybridge days.

And I've never understood people enclosing the flybridge with eisenglass when they have a pilothouse.

 

[SEVEN]

Love it up there. Always open but covered when not in use.