Raymarine C80 Classic suncover stolen

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Back on the boat yesterday after 6 months of winter and everything is fine .... apart from the fact that some scumbag has stolen the suncover off my C80 Classic chartplotter.

The problem is that these covers are like gold dust now .... £100 on eBay for an used one!. :ambivalence:

I've looked for a 3D printer file and can't seem to find one so I'll probably have to rig/botch something up. I just wondered whether anyone else has addressed this problem and what did they come up with?

Richard
 
I sewed one using some navy Sunbrella fabric left over from cockpit bench foam cushions.

I took a pattern of where the chartplotter sits and the angles of the GRP surround around it. I used a couple of A4 acetate sheets (like old OHP slides) cut to shape and glued together, with a ~1” hole where the C120’s rotary dial goes, to provide a solid frontage. I sandwiched this between two sheets of fabric, and the white stitching around it provides a neat echo of the chartplotter screen shape. Angled hems sewn into the fabric match the 3D shape of the GRP. A couple of flaps fit round the back. Velcro patches - self-adhesive just to position them, then sewn in. One patch attaches under a GRP flange above the chartplotter and one on each side flange, so no Velcro is visible.
 
BelleSerene said:
I sewed one using some navy Sunbrella fabric left over from cockpit bench foam cushions.

I took a pattern of where the chartplotter sits and the angles of the GRP surround around it. I used a couple of A4 acetate sheets (like old OHP slides) cut to shape and glued together, with a ~1” hole where the C120’s rotary dial goes, to provide a solid frontage. I sandwiched this between two sheets of fabric, and the white stitching around it provides a neat echo of the chartplotter screen shape. Angled hems sewn into the fabric match the 3D shape of the GRP. A couple of flaps fit round the back. Velcro patches - self-adhesive just to position them, then sewn in. One patch attaches under a GRP flange above the chartplotter and one on each side flange, so no Velcro is visible.
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That sounds like a very neat job .... and well above my skill set. :o

However, the idea of a water-resistant fabric cover held in place with Velcro is very helpful and should be much more achievable than a hard cover made out of plywood or something. I'll take some measurements whilst I'm down here and see what I can come up with.

Thanks

Richard
 
OK .... don't laugh everyone .... but here is a temporary solution until we return to Croatia in a month or so:

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The supermarket bag is held on very tight with 5 re-usable 1cm cable ties. I'm not sure how 100% biodegradeable the bag actually is but I guess it's going to hang around until I come up with a "Sunbrella" version. :o

Richard
 
The only economic way to replace suncovers is to buy spares when you buy the electronics themselves, on the basis that the electronics have a lifetime expectancy that outlasts the covers (chance of nicked, split in sun, dropped ob, stood on etc).

My Simrad electronics are only about 5 years old but you can’t get the covers easily anymore. Shortly after buying them I swooped on some very good prices (10 to 20 quid a cover) onthat iffy Spanish site (wave inn?) (they turned up eventually although I probably would never shop there again). I learnt the lesson after paying 50 quid on eBay to import a s/h cover for an older Simrad display from the US.

An alternative is to consider 100 quid’s worth of cover amortised and bring forward the update to a more modern MFD- with twenty quid spare cover.
 
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