Knowing still that I was looking to go narrower, I cut out templates of all my electronics and started mocking up different layouts until I came to one I liked. I knew I wanted to take around 6" more out of the width in order to get the space I wanted in the boat on either side of the console, so this step kind of confirmed that I could do it and still get a nice clean layout. The irony is the finished layout on the boat now looks nothing like this but it still came out well.
Mock up
Got my leaning post out, it came from Birdsall who is local here. Used it to mock up the space I wanted between the console and leaning post (didn't get a picture of the mock up of it but the finished product has the leaning post around 2" farther back then this) and also at this point knew that I would cut 1 to 1 1/2" of height off the bottom of the console.
