[C38] Pedestal mounted chart plotter. Edson

[Richard West]

Thanks Don, I think I'll make an instrument holder something like that.
 Thanks to everyone else as well for your great responses.

I've mostly made up my mind to go with the Simrad NSE chartplotter, Simrad
HD Radar and Simrad autopilot.  I'll let everyone know how it goes in a
couple of months.

By the way, I got a quote I'm happy with for pulling the mast and painting
it, new standing rigging, new running rigging, new life lines, and furlboom
roller furling.  Not including yard fees, it came out to about $20,000.
 Ouch, but I guess not bad considering all the shinny new stuff.  It's from
Sea Tek in Wilmington, CA.  Anyone have any experience with them?

By the way again, is anyone going to the Annapolis Sail Boat show?  Cyndi
and I are planning to go (Oct. 6th or so).

Thanks,

Rich, Legacy, #360, Los Angeles Harbor




On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Don Strong <drstrong at ucdavis.edu> wrote:

> Rich: Rather than waiting for Anders to approve the image which I posted
> but is too large for instant viewing,
> you can see it at one of my blogs,
> http://c38sails.blogspot.com/**2011/08/edson-radar-display-**mount.html<http://c38sails.blogspot.com/2011/08/edson-radar-display-mount.html>
> .
>
> I cannot find this product on the Edson website any more. You might call
> them and ask for it.
> Regards, Don
>
> On 8/13/11 9:22 AM, les wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 20:29 -0700, Richard West wrote:
>>
>>> Does anyone have their radar screen or chart plotter mounted at their
>>> Edson pedestal?  If so, what did you use for the mount?  Does it get
>>> in the way of getting to or from the wheel?  Does it block your view
>>> forward at all?  Photos would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Rich, Legacy, Los Angeles
>>>
>> For JACE, we chose the Eagle chartplotter.  It is reasonable in size,
>> but small.  I created a mount from a piece of Mahogeny I had on hand.  I
>> took a 1"x3"x8" piece. Drilled a 1" hole about 3/4" from one end, then
>> cut a notch out, through the middle of the hole, and used the notch
>> piect to bolt around the pedestal guard.  I ran the cables up through
>> the deck and into the pedestal guard, and out a hole about 1" below the
>> location I had decided on for the "arm".  The standard mount is mounted
>> by a 1&3/4" screw through the center of the bottom, through two very
>> large fender washers, through the "arm" and then a washer and nyloc nut.
>> The arm will swivel on the pedestal guard and the chartplotter will
>> swivel on the arm, so it is articulated enough to reverse it and hide
>> from the wind in the dodger while watching the gps.  The NMEA cable
>> routes down through the guard to the interface to the autopilot.  This
>> lets the GPS give route and course information to the autopilot (a
>> Wheelpilot).  The setup works quite well, with the exception that the
>> autopilot wants to go off course about 1 mile before being guided by the
>> gps.  I have been told by the autopilot company that this is due to its
>> not being calibrated. But I have run the cal procedure many times to no
>> effect.
>>
>> In any event, it will run a course, but goes past the way points quite a
>> distance before correcting back to the desired course.
>>
>> The wheel pilot remote can be plugged into a distribution cable
>> receptacle that I mounted in the port Lazerette.  This permits me to run
>> the remote into the cabin via the galley pass through, and also run the
>> remote at the chart table where I had an older garmin mounted. The
>> garmin has run its course, and needs to be replaced.
>>
>> Next time I'm at the boat I will take a picture.
>>
>> Sorry for the late response on this one, I am just cleaning out my inbox
>> and came across this.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Les H
>>
>>
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