I didn’t want a below deck battery setup, worse thing is for your battery to be submerged when you need your pumps or your marine radio the most. So I built a box to house the battery, it also doubles as a water tight bulkhead for all the control cables and wiring.
The box is just two pieces of plywood, the transom and starboard gunwale make up the other two sides. Its dimensions are approximately 20″ x 14″ and 14″ high at the top. The bottom dimensions are less due to the transom and gunwale being tapered. The cable hole will eventually get a 4″ motor well boot. The top will have 17″ x 12″ water tight hatch.
The two pieces of plywood are Loctite PL glued and screwed together. The plywood is also PL glued to the deck, transom and gunwale making it water tight. I stopped here because I had to get the deck glassed and gel coated, in two days the temperature forecast high will be 55F that’s to cold to use polyester resin and may never come back up again. So I was forced to move along to fiber glassing the deck.
The box will be fully glassed and tabbed to the transom, walls and deck once I am done. More on this in a future post.
The box is just two pieces of plywood, the transom and starboard gunwale make up the other two sides. Its dimensions are approximately 20″ x 14″ and 14″ high at the top. The bottom dimensions are less due to the transom and gunwale being tapered. The cable hole will eventually get a 4″ motor well boot. The top will have 17″ x 12″ water tight hatch.
The two pieces of plywood are Loctite PL glued and screwed together. The plywood is also PL glued to the deck, transom and gunwale making it water tight. I stopped here because I had to get the deck glassed and gel coated, in two days the temperature forecast high will be 55F that’s to cold to use polyester resin and may never come back up again. So I was forced to move along to fiber glassing the deck.
The box will be fully glassed and tabbed to the transom, walls and deck once I am done. More on this in a future post.
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