MacGregor 25 - GPS Installation

[MBertin]

Hi Team,

I buy a GPS from Standards Horizon. I wonder if any of you have picture showing where did you install GPS display? On the Mac 25 there are no center pod. So I feel that I will need to mounted near the cabin door. But still feel that this might be too far to see the detail from the bar? Any idea and picture?

Let me know.
Marc,

[tangentair]

I have seen several GPS mounted near the cabin door, but I have mine on the console and with polarized sunglasses, I can not read it most of the time, so I do not know how anyone could read it from the helm when it is on the cabin unless you sit pretty far forward. Also with a tiller you have to switch sides when you tack so that might add to your difficulities. You could always fabricate a mount over the aft end but then you would be looking in the wrong direction; or lay a "table with a binnacle" across the seats and put it on there but that would likely be in the way. No way to clamp it on to the tiller is there?

[MBertin]

Tagentair, I was thinking to installed a column (console) in the middle of the deck like one feet foward the end of the tiller. But not sur for the look and also for the space. You mentioned that even that installation (like the 26M) you have difficulty in seing the screen.
Anyone else have GPS mounted near the Cabin door?
Thank you.
Marc,

[goddardw]

On our Mac 25 we have a swing out console that my Magellan Meridian GPS sits on top of the marine VHF and the Humingbird depth sounder below. You can go below past the console but it can be swing clear back out of the way if you want. Since it is shaded by the slide hatch, all three units are easily read.

We routinely use the GPS as a knot meter as well as keeping us on course between points of interest . The Meridian has a number of screens and allows customizing screens. The map screen is very accurate and is very useful especially at night to return exactly to an anchor way point. We use USA topo CD for stored map functions and our Clear Lake is spot on. Each outing we zero the track function then when home download the tracks to a map of the Lake where we sailed. These are annotated and kept as outing logs. Since March 2003, we are nearing 5,000 gps track miles in our outing logs.

Best Regards,
Wilson and Christine
"Chantel marie" Mac 25