Marine vessel, marine vessel steering system, and marine vessel steering mechanism

A marine vessel comprising:

• a hull;
• and
• a steering system including at least one nautical equipment, a steering mechanism to adjust a traveling direction of the hull, and an input terminal to receive an input from a user;
• wherein
• the steering mechanism includes a steering wheel with an operation switch to operate the at least one nautical equipment;
• the input terminal is operable to allow the user to associate the at least one nautical equipment with the operation switch;
• the operation switch is associated with a mode shift function to shift the marine vessel to one of a position maintaining mode in which the marine vessel is kept in a predetermined position, a bow direction maintaining mode in which a direction of a bow of the marine vessel is maintained in a predetermined direction, and a position and bow direction maintaining mode in which the marine vessel is kept in the predetermined position and the direction of the bow of the marine vessel is maintained in the predetermined direction;
• and
• the steering wheel is further equipped with a changeover switch to switch whether to activate the at least one nautical equipment according to the user operation on the operation switch or execute the mode shift function according to the user operation on the operation switch.

A steering system for a marine vessel, the steering system comprising:

• at least one nautical equipment;
• a steering mechanism to adjust a traveling direction of a hull of the marine vessel;
• an input terminal to receive an input from a user;
• and
• a controller;
• wherein
• the steering mechanism includes a steering wheel with an operation switch to operate the at least one nautical equipment;
• and
• the input terminal is operable to receive the input from the user to associate the at least one nautical equipment with the operation switch;
• and
• the controller is configured or programmed to associate the at least one nautical equipment with the operation switch according to the input received from the user via the input terminal.