Originally we wanted a leaning post livewell but with the limited space aft on these boats and the weight concerns with 4 stroke power we decided to integrate the livewell into the console. The round edges of the livewell make it nice for walking around compared to the original console.
The livewell is from Fast Marine Products in Miami it holds 30 gals. I think it ran us around $600.
We considered using the original console but it seemed easier to start fresh. We kept most of the angles off original just shrunk it in width and added some height to it. For the most part its made out of scrap 3/4" and 1/2 coosa". One pannel is made out of 1/2 marine ply because that's all we had left. Most of the wood ended up getting cut out for an access hatch. Some nice little details we added were the toe-kick at the helm, rod holders off the side, also planning on small storage hatch/tackle station above the livewell. One think I hate on our 23' is how the rigging comes through the floor in the middle of the console, it kills a lot of space. If we measured correctly.... The rigging tubes on this will come up on the aft corners of the rod holder bump outs, hopefully this helps maximize useful space under the console. Planning on batteries and then anything else that will fit.
Inside of panels laminated with 1 layer of 1708. Outside of panels laminated in 1 layer of 1708 and 1 layer of CSM. Next we tacked it together and tabbed everything from the inside, weight bearing seams with 2 layers 1708 and all other seams with a single layer of 1708. All the panels from the outside were tabbed with CSM. We cut off the back panel of the livewell so we have complete access to all the fittings from the inside.
So far we got one layer of polyfair on it. Pretty excited with how it came out.
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