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Matt Osmond
05-24-2004, 02:09 PM
I'm a design student at Northumbria Uni in Newcastle and i'm re-designing the cockpit of the Sunseeker XS2000. I was wondering if anyone had any good sketches or photos of racing powerboat interiors. I'm finding it hard to get the right perspective on my drawings. Please help. Thanks for looking.
If you do have any pics etc, please could you email them to mattosmond@yahoo.co.uk
Misogynist
05-24-2004, 06:40 PM
Are you looking for racing cockpits?... Or offshore pleasure boats... Racing cockpits are quite utilitarian.. I have a few pictures of offshore pleasure craft.
Picture this, an aluminum or composite dash, flat with no effort for style, or comfort with gages mounted at different angles around their respective centerlines (not all straight up and down and easy to read, but arranged with their pointers facing up when all is well with the engine running under race conditions) clustered in front of the pilot/engineer seat(s) with switches clustered in same general area, most unmarked one or two with a rubber hose like paddle attached for quick slapping motion engagement. Lots of duck tape installed padding, lots of wire ties holding odd bits and pieces onto the structure. There is no hole where the radio use to live . . .
Misogynist
05-25-2004, 11:29 AM
Picture this, an aluminum or composite dash, flat with no effort for style, or comfort with gages mounted at different angles around their respective centerlines (not all straight up and down and easy to read, but arranged with their pointers facing up when all is well with the engine running under race conditions) clustered in front of the pilot/engineer seat(s) with switches clustered in same general area, most unmarked one or two with a rubber hose like paddle attached for quick slapping motion engagement. Lots of duck tape installed padding, lots of wire ties holding odd bits and pieces onto the structure. There is no hole where the radio use to live . . .
That almost sounds like the old cockpit from last offshore boat... only it was configured that way because the mechanic that was working on the boat worked on garbage trucks for a living (I'm not kidding).
Hi, this is a very very famous racing boat cockpit!!
Matt Osmond
05-26-2004, 10:54 AM
Are you looking for racing cockpits?... Or offshore pleasure boats... Racing cockpits are quite utilitarian.. I have a few pictures of offshore pleasure craft.
I'm really loking for racing ppowerboat cockpits, but any pics wiil help so if you could email them to me then that would be great.
mattosmond@yahoo.co.uk
yipster
05-26-2004, 11:10 AM
the sunseeker XS2000 dashhttp://www.ybw.com/img/newsdesk/mby/mbynews/xs2000.jpg http://www.sunseeker.com/images/range/gallery/xs2000/cockpit.jpg also see for cockpit http://www.sunseeker.com/range/high_performance/xs2000/gallery.htm got some sunseeker books covering interiors and the XS2000 maybe post these pics later, more on british team that cracked the round britain record at http://www.boatingoz.com.au/news01/010823b.htm good luck with the drawings
Matt Osmond
05-26-2004, 02:42 PM
the sunseeker XS2000 dashhttp://www.ybw.com/img/newsdesk/mby/mbynews/xs2000.jpg http://www.sunseeker.com/images/range/gallery/xs2000/cockpit.jpg also see for cockpit http://www.sunseeker.com/range/high_performance/xs2000/gallery.htm got some sunseeker books covering interiors and the XS2000 maybe post these pics later, more on british team that cracked the round britain record at http://www.boatingoz.com.au/news01/010823b.htm good luck with the drawings
Thanks for the Help, much appreciated.
Matt
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