Turret and control assemblies on the helm console.  The turret was made of a material called seaboard, a form of fiberglass.  It was designed and constructed from scratch and held together with drilled and tapped stainless steel hardware.  The teak wood support tray holds coffee or cocktails depending upon the time of day or night.

Control turret close-up.  On the upper left is an electronic compass.  The upper right digital meter is used to sample many different voltage and current readings via the meter switch in the lower right corner.  Directly below the meter is a depth sounder, with it's sensor positioned remotely below decks at the lowest point of the vessel.  That location equates to approximately 20 inches below the water line.  It has a programmable alarm inbuilt to alert us of shallow water.  The Miss Chris only requires slightly less than two feet of water to operate. 

Charger, inverter, transmitter, and audio level controls.  All audio receive and public address levels are adjusted from this one dual gang level control.

Microphone controls for the communications and broadcast transmitters are shown, along with the multi-function digital voltmeter switch.  The functions are as follows:

• Speed        % power used

• 48V            All 8 batteries in series

• Chgr           Total current delivered from the battery charger

• 1-2               Voltage across batteries 1 and 2

• 3-4               Voltage across batteries 3 and 4

• 5-6               Voltage across batteries 5 and 6

• 7-8               Voltage across batteries 7 and 8

• Inv               AC voltage delivered from the 117 volt inverter

• Temp           Temperature sensor located in the motor box

• DC-A           Total DC amps drawn across all 8 batteries