Powerboat cockpits

Discussion in 'Boat Design' started by Matt Osmond, May 24, 2004.

  1. Matt Osmond

    Matt Osmond Guest

    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
     
  2. Misogynist
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    Misogynist Junior Member

    Are you looking for racing cockpits?... Or offshore pleasure boats... Racing cockpits are quite utilitarian.. I have a few pictures of offshore pleasure craft.
     
  3. PAR
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    PAR Yacht Designer/Builder

    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 . . .
     
  4. Misogynist
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    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).
     
  5. fede
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    fede Senior Member

    racing p.boat c-pit

    Hi, this is a very very famous racing boat cockpit!!
     

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  6. Matt Osmond

    Matt Osmond Guest

    Offshore powerboat cockpits

    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
     
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    yipster designer


  8. Matt Osmond

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