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Attach laptop to boat?
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 |
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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 |
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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 -- Sheldon Haynie Texas Instruments 50 Phillipe Cote Manchester, NH 03101 603 222 8652 |
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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. |
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| Can you recommend any particular inexpensive flat lcd display and
| where to het one? check out EarthLCD at: http://store.earthlcd.com/ HTH Vic -- __________________________________________________ ______ Victor Fraenckel - The Windman victorf ATSIGN windreader DOTcom KC2GUI Home of the WindReader Electronic Theodolite Read the WIND "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival." - Winston [Leonard Spencer] Churchill (1874 - 1965) Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed? -Count Oxenstierna (ca 1620) to the young King Gustavus Adolphus |
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Attach laptop to boat?
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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 |
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Attach laptop to boat?
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 |
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