Mounting a GPS unit

bobby2400

bobby2400

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Does anybody have any pics of intresting ways to mount a GPS unit on the drivers side dash of a early v20 like a 1976? Not much room there I'm thinking I will have to build some sort of bracket.
 
Do you have a picture of your dash you could post?  

Here's my dash 1990 V20.

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Man, this one is right up my alley.  You need two 30* bow rail fittings and a short section of stainless tube (bowrail).  I assembled mine with a little 5200 just for good luck, along with the set screws.  Here is a pic:

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I took a piece of lexan and used a heat gun to warm it up and bent it 90 degrees. I added a power outlet and screwed it to the left side of the dash area.
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Bobby, your '76 dash will probably look like my '74 did when I got it...I took all stock Wellcraft dash components gauges and everything out and redid it w/ Starboard...at the time, I couldn't locate any 1/4" , so used 1/2'' seen here...pictured here is sonar/gps combo ... hope this gives ya some ideas ;) ...
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and my antenna went FLAT on the bow-deck...reads all the sats and outta the way ;) ...

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bobby2400 said:
I like that set up!! Is the GPS removable from the dash and how is it held in?
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The GPS/Sonar combo IS removable...hex-head screws "dog-ear" behind the starboard...REEL easy...put my new one in same way...no pix yet...but soon, Hammer...SOON ;) ...
 
No Franco, mine is the Tracker 5500 ? Chartplotter w/ the fuel flow sensor. I absolutely love it. I see this year that in the USA all the Navman stuff is branded Northstar. I was thinking about seeing if they would upgrade my software to run the latest chips, but haven't gotten that far yet.
 
bobby2400 said:
Reelapeelin, Did you cut out the fiberglass below the old panel before you installed the new panel?
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Bobby...sorry so long w/reply ::) ... yes, I took all 'glass from behind old dash out...leave a 3/4" lip all around to attach new... ;) ...
 
For the limited space, I like the above solutions...

I know mine is a different application, so this is only for us CC owners:

This is the SS bracket I made for my Garmin 492 antenna:

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This is to be mounted on the T-top outter frame, as you can see it fits like a con… ??? uhhh I mean a glove. ;D After spot- welding it I sand blasted it to clean it up and for a dull finish.

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Now all I need some free time from work to play on the boat.
 
we no care about your unit!! any more talk about that will result in no postinng for a week!!

Now what do you do with the GPS Unit? ;) ;D
 
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