Overhead console options

[RSchwarzli]

What options do I have for overhead consoles? What have others done? My thought is to somehow mount my CB up there, plus a console similar to what the newer ones have- lights, storage, and a spot to install some toggle switches. Would a big rig console be to big? I don't want something just stuck upthere that looks stupid so, if you have pictures, please post them. Thanks.



Robert

 

[tugboatphil]

Robert,



Are you looking to run one fore and aft, or athwartships (I've been waiting 2 years to use that word on here!! :-laf ) I have a product called Shelf-It. It's a pretty sturdy metal shelf that uses your sunvisor screw holes for mounting. The visors screw to the bottom of the shelf.



I've seen them with CB's and lights mounted on them. You can get them from JC Whitney or any mail order accessory place. Even Cabelas sells them. They have color options and even list them for our years.



(for those of you still cornfuzed, fore and aft is a highly technical nautical term that indicates an imaginary line that runs from the "pointy" end of a ship to the "other" end. Athwartships is a similar line that runs from side to side on the same ship... . if you can imagine it. )

 

[1stgen4evr]

Athwart

Ahoy there matey, or something like that. So I speck you know your port from your sherry, oops I mean starboard as well.



Would that thwarty thing a ma bob be half way from the pointy end to the 'other' end. Do we have athwartruck lines on the first gens? Is that imaginary line secured to a cleat?



Just to add to the cornfusion. Which is not at all like cold fusion.



James

 

[MontyDyer]

I also have the Shelf It from JCW. Good sturdy unit. Its general use for me is a place for my CB and Linear. I had to take the sun visors off since they hung down just a little too low with the Shelf

 

[RSchwarzli]

Quote "(for those of you still cornfuzed, fore and aft is a highly technical nautical term that indicates an imaginary line that runs from the "pointy" end of a ship to the "other" end. Athwartships is a similar line that runs from side to side on the same ship... . if you can imagine it. )"



Aaaaahhhh! O. K. I get it! I was a wonderin what you where smokin! Anyhoo, I am looking for a north to south unit (that means front to back in landlubber terms ). I am also not that concered about length to much as it is going in the crew, so it can go a little ways back if it needs to.



My basic idea here is to have a plane cockpit style interior, all the toggles and buttons, and toys neatly lined up over my head with the radio up toward the front overhead somewhere (I like that big rig look of the radio on the roof ), and all the gauges on the a pillar and dash. Does this all complicate things?

 

[RSchwarzli]

Yes we do have a athwartruck line on a first gen. It runs from the donkeys but down the center of the hood. Oo. Oo.

 

[Kennywould]

Yes we do have a athwartruck line on a first gen. It runs from the donkeys but down the center of the hood. Oo. Oo.

You guy's don't stop this, we will have to do a little keel draggin...

 

[JLEONARD]

So "athwartship" is perpendicular the the lubber line? Which has just been renamed athwartruck line??

I don't have an athwartruck line because I don't have the hood donkey..... there's only the jackass (can I use that word in TDR?) behind the wheel :-laf :-laf and he's waaaay off center!

Hang em from the yard arm I say... arrrrrgh!

Jay