[bitsamonkey]

My Whitewater is a fishable work in progress right now. I'm getting ready to put a new console from Whitewater in it and hing the whole console/t-top like you are doing. Right now it has some other console the PO put in it with the t-top screwed to the deck. I will be fabricating some seriously beefy hinges and bolt the console to the deck with aluminum angle backing. I plan on having to remove a few bolts to tilt the console back since there is a big door in the front to do routine maintenance and checking fluids.