I'd say for sure that's good advice but I'm trying to keep this as idiot proof as possible. You wouldn't be able to steer from anywhere else so not sure I'd need to control speed from anywhere else.
Ya flybridges are a bit difficult to setup especially if your going to be up top a bunch while fishing. Ive got a 28 bertram flybridge and the setup i mentioned would be how i would set it up. but if your keeping it simple i think the spot you picked out would be good if your going to steer from there, visibility forward and to the port side is the tough part from there tho.
From the limited time I've spent fishing this boat so far I've learned a few things. One is that if I'm fishing alone or with the wife and kid I need control right where I'm fishing from. So in that case it's the only spot. When I have a crew and someone wants to steer from up top that's ideal but we just fish off the main in that case. I've also learned to do little turns to port to get a quick glance then for the most part keep my steering to starboard if possible. That's where the existing steering leash is so maybe I'm just used to it now. The occasional peak all the way through the boat helps too. I've also got some ram mounts for my tablet and can link that to my hds 12 as a remote which is great for that spot and up top. I had a crazy plan of mounting a camera to the bow and watching for crab traps through the tablet as well.
Woah you can do that? This is all so beyond me. Can you buy prefabbed consoles like that? Are they totally necessary?
Can't find the drawing I was looking for but here is one for a 4 station steering you can get the idea.
How does the rear station also steer the kicker? Or did I misunderstand?
Oh I see with a tie bar. Gotcha. I assumed that wasn't an option with an IO if I wanted to tilt the kicker out of the water. Connecting and disconnecting isn't an option for me as I'm trying to avoid having to get my feet wet on the low swim grid which is another reason I'm going this route.
