If your Triton sails in heavy weather with her rail down as far as my Ariel, then having someone else below who knows what they are doing putting pencil marks on the paper charts is a very sweet thing. I am still waiting for someone to invent navigation tools with Velcro on one side.

One cool thing that I do have is a GPS that mounts on the bulkhead behind my chart table below the skylight that covers the space that was once covered by the icebox lid. I can mount the GPS so that it is readable from the settee in front of the chart table, where I sit to do my plotting, or I can rotate it so that the screen faces upwards. It is a bit hard to read through the sky light from the cockpit above under many light conditions, but in heavy no-glare weather when the GPS is best left below I can make out the essentials. That is one way to produce an all weather GPS.

I think that Carl Alberg probably had that in mind when he designed that oft-hated top-loading icebox. That icebox was merely intended as an interim use for the space until a GPS could be invented. A GPS is better than cold beer in the cockpit any day.

By the way, both my Garmin 76 GPS and Garmin 176 GPS/chart plotter work very well below that skylight with their integral antennas. I have had no need thus far to install a remote antenna. In as much as the 176 will operate on rechargeable AA batteries or the house battery and can be integrated with my digital selective call VHF, but is also transportable to my cockpit, car, etc. it is very versatile and oh so functional....however it's pretty hard to go anywhere with the mast down boat as mine is presently.