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The pilot house is designed with two thing in mind ... single handing and safety. |
Pilot House Exterior
Hughes designed and modeled on the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane: The pilot house is welded galvanized steel and is a seamless part of the boat.
Morgan enlarged and replaced two of the forward windows and one of the aft windows with deck hatches (1/2" Lexan),
and added the hurricane-rated Lexan all-weather lookout bubble. |
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Pilothouse Topside
The top of the pilothouse contains the hurricane-rated polycarbonate bubble hatch, three polycarbonate windows, and the three position boom gallows. |
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Pilothouse Doors
These custom made doors are aluminum skin, aluminum frame, with 1" bullet-proof polycarbonate sandwiched between 1/8"
layers of glass and tinted acrylic protecting the polycarbonate from both UV and scratches. |
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Doors Gaskets
When the doors were originally installed there was a trailing gap that let in cold air and promised to someday, perhaps, let in a trailing sea:
That has been addressed.
The flexible gasket makes a tight seal against the pilothouse and is attached to the door with a black starboard backing via 7 stainless steel screws.
Should the gasket ever wear out ship stores have sufficient rubber to replace each at least 5 times. |
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Looking forward from the pilot's chair
This picture was taken on a typical Seattle day: Rainy. You can see the interior of the pilot house
(cushions removed port and starboard), and view the twin winches with rope clutches for the main and staysail sheets,
as well as the radar and chart plotter on the binnacle. |
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Sheet Buckets
One of the more obnoxious, and dangerous things you can do in a cockpit or pilothouse is have a tangle of in the walkway.
The solution shown here keeps both the staysail and main sheets off the floor it also secures the winch handles both port and
stbd. |
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Pilot House Interior
Viewed from the main cabin you can see the centrally located pilot's chair behind the binnacle housing the wheel, supporting the combined
radar-chart plotter display (replaceable with a very large magnetic compass), and the direct-drive hydraulic pump.
Port instrumentation is engine, bow thruster, and autopilot controls.
Starboard controls are radar detector, breaker panels for dual 12VDC and 24VDC systems, VHF radio, and forward scanning solar.
Note, also, the 1/2" polycarbonate hatch immediately behind the pilot's chair. |
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Binnacle
Self Inflicted is innovative with custom features you'll find on no other boat. Compare this picture with the one above:
The custom-fabricated binnacle has been locked in place facing starboard: Perfect for steering from the rail
coming into an anchorage. The binnacle can also be locked in place for steering from port or forward of the binnacle. |
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Pilot's Seat
When piloting a boat the person at the helm should be able to concentrate on the job at hand ... not using one hand just to hang on.
A firmly anchored seat, with arm rests and a lap belt ...
all controls and electronics within easy reach makes for a safer voyage with less stress and minimizes exhaustion. The
coffee-mug/beer bottle holder can be deployed for attitude adjustment as required. |
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Port Panel
Instrumentation and controls on the port side of the pilot house include engine and bow thruster controls, diesel fuel
gauge, main cabin floor lighting switch, and controls for the fog horn and three main bilge pumps.
Mounted on top of the panel is the search light steering system and above the panel is the Raytheon autopilot's hand-held,
a maplight, and the house AM/FM/CD/DVD system. |
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Starboard Panel
Instrumentation and controls on the starboard side of the pilot house include Interphase Probe forward scanning sonar,
VHF radio, radar detector, battery monitors, and circuit breakers for three battery banks. |
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Refrigerator/Freezer(s)
There are two top access refrigeration boxes each capable of being either a freezer or refrigerator. The seating cushion
has been removed to show the access hatch
Each of the two identical, 8 cu. ft. units was custom built by SeaFreeze in Bellingham Washington.
Each has its own fully independent refrigeration unit and each or both of these can be run from a manifold with two independent raw water cooling pump.
Lose one refrigeration unit and you still have 50% capacity. Lose one raw water pump and you still have 100% capacity. |
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Battery Locker
Batteries for three of the four banks, starting (12V), house (12V) and house (24V) are stored under the pilothouse floor,
properly strapped to steel angle iron and sandwiched between the twin 75 gallon fresh water tanks. |
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