INTRO: I'm new to the website. Own an 86 200 Osprey that I picked up from Tampa, FL in late February and trailered to Missouri (Fort Leonard Wood). Since gone to Lake Charles, Louisiana, Galveston, TX, and Lake texoma, TX as well as my local lakes. Done a lot of "make it work" work on the boat.... BTW, I'm a fly fisher, so some stuff like exposed cleats will eventually be replaced.
QUESTION: Because of the age of the boat and multiple prior owners the console has more holes than a well-aged wheel of Swiss cheese. My winter project is to take the console off and glass it. Anybody done this? I don't necessarily want to restore the console as much as make it functional for me. To that end I intend to replace the gauges only with tach, voltmeter, and fuel to leave room for an in-panel mount of my VHF, and I an contemplating going to a side-of-console mounted shifter to make room to panel-mount my GPS/sonar.
Any suggestions will be very welcome.
BTW, I am indebted already to the folks who posted about the wiring job one fellow did. I learned a lot and that will be part of my project.
Max
