Installing Kingsley's Entertainment: Mounting an iMac on a Sailboat

   Yep, that's right. I have a fireplace app for those cold boaty nights...a fireplace app on my newly mounted (but old) iMac! Now, sailors and saltwater livers relax, I know, PCs (vs laptops) might not hold up that well in the marine environment due to the salt/humidity in the air and that they are less sealed to protect against moisture (like a laptop I've heard). 
   Well, life is short, and so is the life of my beautiful computer (the first one I bought as an adult). She's 5 years old now and if she goes she goes. At least I will test this how-well-do-computers-hold-up on boats thing because no one seems to agree. First, the location.

Old tv mount holes above, I drilled new two new ones below...

It's going forward, towards the V-berth

   First, take off the normal mac stand (with the tools that came with the new mount adapter thingy (purchased online from Amazon for $30...make sure it fits your model...my mac is an old 24 inch.

   So here's the thing, I didn't really need the actual metal adjustable arm full mounting situation, just this little mount since it was going right onto the wall.

   The mount is a VESA mount made by Apple, which pretty much means that the holes are in a standard place (this is why I could use the two pre-drilled holes on Kingsley from the old tv). Then there are two ways to do it in my situation. One is have the 4 bolts (I can use bolts because I can get behind the mac on the other side of the wall) in the holes of the VESA mount before I hook it to the mac, hold it up to the wall, push it through, then attach nuts on the other side...or the other way (the way I did it) was to just screw bolts in from the other side of the wall, through the wall, and into the four tethered holes you see below.  I did it this way, it seems super solid.
   The only downsides are the USB slots are a little tricky to get at, should I drill more holes for the cords? Heat from the computer onto the wall doesn't seem to be a problem...until I upgrade to the makes-your-mac-run-hotter Mac OS Lion...

   Time to put on some netflix or maybe some more blogging perhaps?

   ~Paul   ETC