Anyone put a Raymarine e80 in a 25 helm?

[CC25]

I'm thinking about upgrading. Has anyone done Ray E or C80 flushmount on a 25? Looks to be a tight fit, was wondering it works.

[TWeir]

I installed a C-120 on my CC 25. I made a mounting frame to tilt it up some and to clear the dash underneath.
As you can see I moved the interment gages to one side to make room.
I also made the unit so it can be removed with ease and stored at home.

[sharktales]

Tweir Very nice clean job. What did you make the base out of? Charlie

[TWeir]

Sharktales
I used 3/8" black acrilic plasitc. The base stays attached to the C-120 when removed from the dash.
terry

[sharktales]

Where did you buy the acrilic plastic from? Again very nice job. Charlie

[TWeir]

sharktales
I bought the plastic at Tap Plastics. Not sure if they have any in your area, I live on the west coast in Portland Oregon area. The plastic can be worked with most wood working tools. I cut the pieces to the shape I needed, glued them together, rounded the edges and than fine wet sanded to remove the gloss finish as I liked the mat look better. Here is the link to Tap Plastics.

http://www.tapplastics.com/

Here is a pic of the frame in process.

[sharktales]

I flush mounted a Garmin 3206 up in the L/H electronic box which fit very nicely but a little hard to read underway. I really love Garmins Blue charts but I also want to install a larger unit either Furuno VX2 or the Raymarine E or C series with radar. This will give me a back-up system. How do you like the Raymarine? Any problems? Thanks Charlie

[TWeir]

I have only run the C- series for one season and so far I am very pleased with it and have had no problems. The screen is awesome

I had a Raymarine Pathfinder on my other boat for several years and loved it.

I have the DMS 300 hooked up to it with a transom mounted transducer and I am not to happy with the transducer setup. I was watching your thread on the Airmars M260 in hopes that it may be the way to go.
It works “ok” for what I need. Most of my fishing is off shore for Halibut or for Tuna.
Most Halibut fishing is in about 500 feet of water, some times I can get a reading but most times it will not show much.

[CC25]

Nice job

As much as I'd like to have the larger screen, I'm looking to take out the Loran thats dash mounted and stick in an E80. I've got a garmin dash mounted, and will keep that one as a back up.

Nice work on the 120.

[crawdad]

I am in the process of installing a C-70 series in my helm,(starboard, upper panel) I took out the original Garmin and built a Starboard frame to enlarge the area. I am now going to enlarge the hole to fit the new unit. I am then going to build a cover for the top because I think the new unit will pop out the top of the dash.
I haven't started cutting yet, a little scared, I will send pictures during the process. Wish me luck...

Jim
Crawdaddy