Versatile helmsman chair for a yacht

Claim 1

A versatile helmschair for a yacht, powered upwardly from a rearwardly facing lounge seating height in a lounge of a yacht to an elevated forward viewing height in a pilot house portion of this lounge, and the helmsman, captain, or skipper remains seated in this helmschair and operates his controls of this helmschair, which are located in the arm of this helmschair to raise and to lower this helmschair, while he remains seated, and at any time he may change his facing direction upon swiveling, at any elevation, in either direction of rotation, from the lounge and stern facing direction to the bow facing direction, comprising: (a) a comfortable upholstered lounge chair serving also as a helmschair; (b) a swivelable chair attachment assembly secured to the bottom of the lounge chair; (c) a lounge chair raising and lowering assembly secured to the swivelable chair attachment assembly, comprising in turn: (1) an extendable hollow cylindrical portion secured to the swivelable seat attachment assembly and having an axial guide means permitting up and down motion, but no rotational motion; (2) a stationary hollow cylindrical portion slidably fitted to the exterior of the extendable hollow cylindrical portion and having an axial guide means permitting up and down motion, but no rotary motion; (3) a screw jack mechanism secured between and within the extendable portion and stationary portion to move them relative to one another, and thereby to raise and to lower the upholstered lounge chair serving also as a helmschair; and (4) an electric motor to power the screw jack mechanism, using the yacht electrical power source and operated as the helmsman, captain, or skipper, while seated, utilizes the controls located in the arm of the lounge chair serving also as a helmschair; and (d) a deck mounting assembly secured to the lounge chair raising and lowering assembly, and adapted for securement to the deck of a yacht.