# Six Ways Remote Helm Control Technology Improves Marine Vessel Operations – **URL:** \ **Category:** Scuttlebutt\ **Created:** [December 3, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495 "2019-12-03T14:12:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/1 "2019-12-03T14:12:04Z")
> **[Six Ways Remote Helm Control Technology Improves Marine Vessel Operations –...](https://gcaptain.com/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/)** > > Sea Machines’ remote-helm control marine technology is a core feature for both its flagship SM200 and SM300 products. Equipped with an intuitive joystick that allows an operator to remote-command manned or unmanned workboats within a 1 to 2KM range... Then there is another way that Remote control improves… … oh, just read it. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. > **[Deckhand pleads guilty over drunk sex with yacht captain that led to $140k...](https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2019-12-03/gold-coast-deckhand-guilty-of-negligence/11762630?pfmredir=sm)** > > A Gold Coast woman has admitted negligence over a drunken tryst on a luxury yacht bound for the Gold Coast. Without anyone acting as lookout the vessel hit several objects, including another yacht. Changed category to more appropriate Scuttlebutt ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 2:34pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/2 "2019-12-03T14:34:45Z")
In case you missed it “… attempted to steer the boat via remote control while the pair were intimate…” ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/3 "2019-12-03T15:15:18Z")
46 year old captain crashes the boat while having sex with a 26 year old deckhand and the deckhand also gets charged. WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Klaveness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/klaveness/32/7001_2.png) [@Klaveness](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Klaveness)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/4 "2019-12-03T15:18:12Z")
> Cheya Handley’s defence lawyer said she was only admitting to 10 minutes of negligence Interesting perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/5 "2019-12-03T15:32:06Z")
Who was pushing whose buttons?? 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/6 "2019-12-03T15:37:12Z")
… and I wonder if the remote control had “Master” and “Slave” options. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/7 "2019-12-03T15:40:03Z")
Waiting for the joystick jokes… ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/8 "2019-12-03T15:48:50Z")
Joystick? No, the thing at the front is called a jackstaff! ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/9 "2019-12-03T15:50:56Z")
Well, according to the article, she did get her promotion 🤨 ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/10 "2019-12-03T16:47:47Z")
> [@Lee\_Shore](#): > > the deckhand also gets charged. WTF? Dereliction of duties as lookout. Contributory negligence. ---
**Author:** ![Capt\_Phoenix](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/capt_phoenix/32/281_2.png) [@Capt\_Phoenix](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Capt_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/11 "2019-12-03T16:48:20Z")
Her lawyer “added that in the maritime industry, the skipper is regarded as “God”.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😂😂😂😂😂 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 😂😂😂😂😂 ---
**Author:** ![Lee\_Shore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Lee\_Shore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Lee_Shore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/12 "2019-12-03T17:15:21Z")
> [@Capt\_Phoenix](#): > > Dereliction of duties as lookout. > Contributory negligence. She was doing her duty, following orders 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/13 "2019-12-03T17:36:22Z")
Must give the other Lee a call - see if Bravo can work this into a future episode… ---
**Author:** ![Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Binbag\_the\_Saylore](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Binbag_the_Saylore)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/14 "2019-12-03T17:41:22Z")
… and maybe start with a clip from her “audition”!🤫 ---
**Author:** ![Hogsnort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@Hogsnort](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Hogsnort)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/six-ways-remote-helm-control-technology-improves-marine-vessel-operations/53495/15 "2019-12-04T02:33:59Z")
Reminds me the time when the second mate was having it off with the female radio officer when the ship hit the reef. The scuttlebutt was (did the earth move for you too?"😂