Ryan, one other thought. I don't know the layout of the area you will be placing all of this stuff in but on my boat (a 1991 Hydra Sport walkaround) I've got an area about the size of an overgrown shoe box to work in. When I saw peterbo3's pics on the rear side of his helm area it hit me that I should have opened that side of the helm up into the cabin. That way I could have quadrupled the size of the work space and really have done a nice neat job of it. I managed to keep mine pretty civilized for about 2/3rds of the job and then I just plain ran out of space. I've got the helm pump, twin controls, buss bars, switch panel , guage wiring, new NMEA harness for the new chartplotter/radar, etc all stuffed into that little space.
Had I just opened up the back side of the helm area into the cabin and then built an enclosure of some sort it would have been a bad a$$ job. I still may do it just for the fun of doing it right even though it will mean a bunch of butt splices.
Just a thought.
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