Wayne.B wrote:



I took an old, inexpensive laptop on the 2002 Bermuda Race wrapped in
saran wrap. It was a farly wet race with lots of spray finding its
way below to the nav station but the laptop survived fine. I was able
to use the mouse pointer and keyboard right through the saran wrap.


Now you're talking! I use a ziplock baggie for waterproofing my cell
phone. Put a little air in it and the cell phone will even float. And
the cell pone works through the baggie too. The baggie gets wrinkled and
too cloudy after a while but then you can always recycle that bag and
use a new one.

Stephen

Right now I'm having a strange vision of some kind of arm,
..
..
it so i can just swivel the laptop around inside the cabin and see it
from both areas.

I currently use a tv wall mount for my monitor. I bought one at Wal-mart
for about $25.00 and throughbolted it. When I'm using the computer it
swings out over the table, and then swings back against the wall when I'm
done. It comes with a securing strap that may or may not work for a
laptop.


Aaron

Buy a Flat LCD display and mount it on an articulated ARM, so that it can be
swung out into the companion way etc. We have a Lexan drop Board that ours
fits behind. Take your laptop, and put it "away", using remote
keyboard/mouse to minimize the risk from spray.



I currently use a tv wall mount for my monitor. I bought one at Wal-mart
for about $25.00 and throughbolted it. When I'm using the computer it
swings out over the table, and then swings back against the wall when I'm
done. It comes with a securing strap that may or may not work for a
laptop.


Aaron

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Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652

On Mon, 03 May 2004 08:34:22 -0400, Sheldon Haynie
wrote:

Buy a Flat LCD display and mount it on an articulated ARM, so that it can be
swung out into the companion way etc. We have a Lexan drop Board that ours
fits behind. Take your laptop, and put it "away", using remote
keyboard/mouse to minimize the risk from spray.

Shelton,
Can you recommend any particular inexpensive flat lcd display and
where to het one?
Thanks,
John C.

| Can you recommend any particular inexpensive flat lcd display and
| where to het one?

check out EarthLCD at:

http://store.earthlcd.com/

HTH

Vic

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Read the WIND

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-Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620) to the young King Gustavus Adolphus

Look the

http://www.ram-mount.com/laptopcomp.htm


Jeannette

On Sun, 02 May 2004 09:39:09 -0700, Stephen Trapani
wrote:

What is the best way to hold a laptop on a boat? boat shelf with the
right size hardback books to keep it from sliding around? holder arm or
some homemade jig I can copy? A way to see the laptop screen from the
helm in the cockpit on a sail boat? a couple of different attachment
areas maybe?

Does anyone have some brilliant setup? I have an iBook if that matters.

Stephen

Jeannette
aa6jh
Bristol 32, San Francisco
http://www.eblw.com/contepartiro/contepartiro.html

Stephen Trapani wrote:

What is the best way to hold a laptop on a boat? boat shelf with the
right size hardback books to keep it from sliding around? holder arm or
some homemade jig I can copy? A way to see the laptop screen from the
helm in the cockpit on a sail boat? a couple of different attachment
areas maybe?

Does anyone have some brilliant setup? I have an iBook if that matters.

Stephen

Try these guys:

http://www.ram-mount.com/

--
"It's never too late to have a happy childhood"
Tom Robbins

I have a Samsung, it has a 12 V input. There are models that have TV tuners
as well and Video input if you have kids who "NEED" to bring their Xbox
along.

S



On 5/3/04 11:13 AM, in article ,
"jchaplain" wrote:

On Mon, 03 May 2004 08:34:22 -0400, Sheldon Haynie
wrote:

Buy a Flat LCD display and mount it on an articulated ARM, so that it can be
swung out into the companion way etc. We have a Lexan drop Board that ours
fits behind. Take your laptop, and put it "away", using remote
keyboard/mouse to minimize the risk from spray.

Shelton,
Can you recommend any particular inexpensive flat lcd display and
where to het one?
Thanks,
John C.

--
Sheldon Haynie
Texas Instruments
50 Phillipe Cote
Manchester, NH 03101
603 222 8652

"Armond Perretta" wrote:

Stephen Trapani wrote:

What is the best way to hold a laptop on a boat?

Try:

http://www.capjack.com/catalog/Lapto...ems.asp?gr=341

A friend had her radar on such an arm so that it could swing out into
the forward companionway.

In our case, with a center cockpit boat, the cockpit is perhaps drier
and less subject to pooping than with an aft cockpit, and Bob has made
a computer box in the corner which has an antenna for the GPS, and
power connections (12V) for the computer and GPS. This has a rubber
back, overlapping plexiglass front panels and formica top and sides,
and is beside the helm station.

http://photomail.photoworks.com/shar...YAUb0zqEuMKKwt
If it is really too wet there, we bungee cord it to the nav station
which is in the aft cabin right by the companionway.
http://photomail.photoworks.com/shar...YAUQGfh0G6MGMN


grandma Rosalie

S/V RosalieAnn, Leonardtown, MD
CSY 44 WO #156
http://home.mindspring.com/~gmbeasley/id2.html

Stephen Trapani wrote:
I'm not really fond of the idea of not being able to use it during foul
weather and I don't think I can trust a bimini/dodger setup to protect a
laptop in foul weather.

then maybe you might want to consider one of these
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6639 210&rd=1

nice box! and you don't need to worry about a holder
(pity about the Windoze virus though) but that's easily enough fixed