Beautiful boat! Is that a 'Sea-Spension' helm seat pedestal? It's good to see Parker has installed the mid-ship cleats where they are reachable from the cockpit; on ours, the midship cleats are not 'midship' (too far forward) and are not reachable from the cockpit.... On our free-standing cockpit control station there are three buttons. 1) the station selection button. 2) the 'kill-switch' and 3) engine-start. (Just now verified this)..... I see there are only two on this console. I guess 'engine-start' has been deemed unnecessary?
Yes, it is supposed to have a suspension. We actually ordered premium chair, which has a bolster, so they are swapping it.
I can now see the on/off switch with your close-up photo... I can also see the emergency cut-off right below it. How do you select which station/controls are 'active'? Is there a station 'selector switch' on the engine control?
I have mostly been in older Parkers and IIRC none of our see trials last year had a second helm, I believe there is a switch in the main helm throttle box, and then a blue light pops up on the box that's active or something like that, but I'm unclear on details; my dealer was baffled about those new throttle boxes, apparently Parker did not tell them about it, I guess Parker just does whatever it does, lol.
Yours must be a new version of the 'fly-by-wire' controls. (Ours is the 2013 version). There is a 'station-selector-button' (it looks just like the 'on/off' button, mounted in the black, square, that looks just like yours) at both of the control stations on our boat. The control station inside the pilothouse is the 'primary'. It's where the ignition key is, so that makes sense. When the engine is turned on, a little blue light (like you mentioned) appears on the throttle base, indicating that that is the 'active/usable' control. To use and/or activate the cockpit control station, I have to push the other 'selector' button that's mounted beside the 'on/off' and 'safety' kill-buttons on the outside console. At that time, a little blue light will turn on, on the cockpit/outside throttle. (And of course, the blue light will turn off at the other throttle). There must be some kind of 'built-in 'station selector switch', possibly mounted on, or in the throttle itself, with your new boat/new technology controls.... I'm guessing there has to be one, as it would be a bad idea to have both stations 'active' at the same time..... Edit; It looks like the 'station-selection' button is on the left side of your throttle base. Looks like there are three 'button'/ push-in controls there. One is likely a new version of the neutral switch/button.
