Next message: Enriquez, Michael: "lv-ab: omni directional TV Antenna"
I've been working on this. My nav station is very small and it had a
totally uncomfortable bench seat at a too small chart table. I gutted the
whole thing. I decided that I needed to start with a comfortable place to
sit for long periods and I would build the rest of it around the chair. I
bought a high end office chair (Arion?) with every kind of adjustment. Its
a pedestal chair and I removed the wheels and mounted the base to a new wood
base that I fit into the curvature of the boat. The nav station is in a
corner. I needed to fit in a chart table and a place for the laptop. I
made the chart table on my left on about a 40 degree angle with a
substantial fiddle on the bottom. Put storage behind. Because the parallel
rules would fall, I went with a navigation machine (like a drafting
machine). It holds a standard chart folded in half. Very successful. This
left room in front of me for a small desk to hold a laptop & mouse. I'm
putting narrow shelves under this for inverters, radios, disk drives, etc.
I've been gradually adding lights, radio, etc. Not ideal but really made a
lot of use of a very small space. Still do not have a good plan for the
printer. Been using RAM mounts for electrical stuff. Could probably do a
jpeg if you want.
Bill Sellar
___________________________________________________________________________
|| The Live-Aboard List : send a "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" request ||
|| in body of message to: ||
