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    Default My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    and my beer keeps tipping over, too.

    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard:

    thats slick!
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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    You have a real problem there.
    I am willing to take the boat/problem off your hands for free.
    I'll even find you another boat that doesn't have this problem.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    You just need a girl in a bikini to hold the chart in place. And another one for the beer. Simple really.

    - Norm

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Solution:

    use a skillsaw and cut some grooves across the top of the dash. You can then wedge the edge of your chart in and it.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    A staple gun would hold the chat in place, Maybe some 4" spikes would also do the job.
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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    "I once complained I had no chart table, until I met a man who had no boat."
    basil

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Problem solved. Thumbtacks and 'monkey dung' do the trick.
    “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Of the answers so far I like Basil's the best. However my simple solution is to use the handymans best tool and simply Duct Tape the chart in place.

    Tom G. (Seaweed)

    P.S. Norm's solution of the girl in the bikini is good but she should be holding the beer.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    there's always a duct tape... Naaaa...
    That is a awfully nice dashboard... I wouldn't mind having one like that in my truck...
    save a nose, pick a banjo

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Is that the red and white they rebuilt to a somewhat different standard than usual? If so, I saw the boat in Mystic this summer, as it was on display at the show. If not, it needs a chart table!

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    "Norm's solution of the girl in the bikini is good but she should be holding the beer."

    Then get another girl.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    You just need a girl in a bikini to hold the chart in place. And another one for the beer. Simple really.

    - Norm
    I thought Norm did recommend two...

    Bob

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    I think it would take 6 girls in bikinis
    4 for the chart, one for each corner.
    2 for the beer, one to hold the beer and one to fetch refills
    Allan of the Grove - S/V Laura Ellen, 1937 Gaff Schooner
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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    I would tend to think you could make something out of particle board and epoxy that'd do both jobs and you could 5200 it right to the dash. You guys overthink these things. One trip to Home Depot....Bam...Done!
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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Stick some steel on the back of the wooden thing then steal Keith's rare earth fridge magnets.
    Complicated problems usually have simple solutions - which are almost always wrong.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Quote Originally Posted by S/V Laura Ellen View Post
    I think it would take 6 girls in bikinis
    4 for the chart, one for each corner.
    2 for the beer, one to hold the beer and one to fetch refills
    This is definitely the answer. Just take look at the finish of the boat! It needs a few of these final details.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    I got a better Idea Tatoo the charts on the girls(should make for some interesting topography)
    "Rise Again Majestic Spirit"

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    You guys overthink these things.
    ROTFLMAO at all of the ideas.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    One practical thing no one has mentioned about girls in bikinis is that they won't scratch the finish on the wood.

    Tom G. (Seaweed)

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Quote Originally Posted by Tom Galyen View Post
    One practical thing no one has mentioned about girls in bikinis is that they won't scratch the finish on the wood.

    Tom G. (Seaweed)
    Not under normal use conditions.

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    Default Re: My chart won't stay on the dashboard

    Quote Originally Posted by Concordia...41 View Post
    ROTFLMAO at all of the ideas.
    No way! Say it isn't so!

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