Guys: Need some advice... Im putting on a hyd. steering unit. & Smartpilot.
I want a really cool wheel like Ive seen on here in pics. (You know with the barney knob & 3 spokes?)
Any particular name brand?
Wayne http://momentoffame.com/photopost/showp ... 500/page/1
Scot,
The wheel (original) on my 1963 sf 's lower helm fits ok but I did have to take a hackswaw and cut about a quarter inch off the cupped housing that fits over the pump. Mine just wouldn't fit until I did that. I then smoothed with a grinder.
I don't remember what I paid, I'll have to go back and look. But those wheels of Sams sure aare beautiful. I just put one of his fighting chairs on the boat last year. Pop's in Palm Beach fishing the Silver Sailfish Derby as we speak. I'll tell her you said "hello!" I was up there two weeks ago for a party and saw Twyford, Kim Neilsen, a bunch of the usual suspects...
Man thats a cool wheel.. but with that style you gotta have it perfectly straight on the set up. or its gonna look like my old chevy trk wheel going 1/4 turn "Left"
Wayne
Wayne, don't know about the wheel, but your boat is looking great! I waffle some on keeping my 31 or moving to a bigger Bertram, now that I'm retired and could run more trips, but seeing what a lot of you guys have done to your boats always brings me back to wanting to make mine "all it could be"!
Looking at a nice 42 I could maybe get for $125,000, but then the guy down the canal puts Bullet - a beautiful 31 just repowered with new 370 common rail Cummins, up for sale for $225,000 - and I'd probably rather have it! He says it tops out at 36 knots, cruises 29.
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