Thx moose. I will be running 1/0 to the engine so don't think that will be an issue. My buddy who owns and operates a marine shop, evinrude dealer, is helping me out with the electrical system before they hang the bracket and engine. Hopefully the battery placement doesn't negatively affect performance. I'm hoping that bracket, relatively heavy motor, kicker, 3 layers of marine ply in transom, etc. Will make her sit heavy in stern and offset battery weight. Never ran a SeaCraft but only hear good things. Will take some getting used to bow steering coming from c.c. exclusively. Been running all sorts and size boats through the Bahamas my whole life so hopefully will be able to give some unbiased feed back once she gets running. Quite excited.
Erebus. Thx for your positive thoughts. I did have issues with the seams and removed the wood from inside and replaced with foam board and reglassed. The whole inside was gone over and cleaned up and resprayed so that wasn't an issue for me anyway. The steering is a seastar rearmount healm. The divider is starboard and seems to fit well. Haven't figured how I want to mount it in yet. Also am thinking of putting a sub in it which will also serve as an access with just taking a few screws out. We'll see.
Thought the guage panel turned out well too.
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