Practical Boat Owner

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Remote control for bow and stern thrusters

We own a Jersey 36 single-engine motorboat, and with the dive platform she’s actually 40ft long. She has a shaft-driven Vetus 250hp engine with fully balanced rudder, cathedral hull and has bow and stern thrusters.

At slow speed will turn in about a boat length and a half to port and about two boat lengths to starboard. This is due to our large balanced rudder designed by my retired naval architect brother… So why do we really need thrusters? And why did we replace our working thruster remote with a new one?

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