Hey, Nice box.  LOL! and amen to voting them out!

plus some marine carpet scraps ...

hardest part was deciding where to put the speakers as i use all the storage space i have now, and i dodnt want the speaker faces out where they would get bumped in by the cooler, skis and other flotsam (nautical terms for cr$p in your boat)

I ended up with them facing the rear under the seat overhang. Well protected. Plus we dont listen to the stereo underway, just when we are floating off the back of the boat anyways. Perfect.

fwiw- the console is mounted to the kick board, not the floor. Plus, I ran short bracket between the console box at the top up to the thru bolts used to hold the rear view mirror. That way it doesnt flop around. Plus, heavy weights have a tendency to pop out of floor screwed mounts, unless you can get under the floorboards and back it up with a bolt and large washer to distribute the weight.  Since I put everything on connectors with a few tricks, I can get the console out in less than five minutes for winter storage out of site from thieves casing my bioat for free pickins. Gives my Rottie more time to clamp her teeth on their sorry a$$.

i added a marine gell battery with fused output for a separate power to the unit. I ran the power thru a dash switch so I can turn power to the unit on and off (wife doesnt  know what that switch is for, so when I get tired of the radio I tell her the power died (switch OFF barney!) If i get ambitious I will put both batteries on a dual battery switch for charging, but really, the radio battery barely drops off with the couple of hours in use, and this set up is simple and bullet proof. If I parallell two batteries I have to run mombo cables from one side of the boat to the other (asking for problems my thinking). If for some reason my main ever went dead suddenly, I can easily swap batteries as everything is easily swapped without the use of tools.  Without running an AMP i gigure my radio will easily last all day on a float without recharging. So seems like a decent comprimise.