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17' standard conversion to center console
cvttejim	#1  Posted on 10/24/08 - 7:16 PM
Member Posts: 2 Comments: 0 Joined: 07/30/06	I would appreciate comments on the practicality and cost of converting a 1996 standard/side console to a center console. jim johnson, cvttejim@yahoo.com
Joe Kriz	#2  Posted on 10/24/08 - 8:00 PM
Site Owner Personal Page Personal Album Photo Albums Project Albums Posts: 11447 Comments: 452 Joined: 03/18/05	Basically only 2 things you need. 1. Center console (preferably like the 1986-1989 version) http://www.whalercentral.com/articles...icle_id=58 2. A seat (preferably an RPS) http://www.whalercentral.com/photogal...lbum_id=12 The above link has a different base than the original style Z legs but I think you get the idea. Here is an original style with the Z legs. http://www.whalercentral.com/infusion...?user_id=4 And one last important thing. You need to have a rigging tunnel in your model. I am not sure what your 17 standard has. Edited by Joe Kriz on 10/24/08 - 9:46 PM
cyclops	#3  Posted on 10/25/08 - 5:36 AM
Member Posts: 26 Comments: 0 Joined: 11/11/06	A friend of mine has a 1998 17' standard. The rigging tunnel is there, It has a cover over it at each end.
acordts	#4  Posted on 11/21/08 - 11:33 PM
Member Project Albums Posts: 57 Comments: 4 Joined: 11/21/08	[quote]cvttejim wrote: I would appreciate comments on the practicality and cost of converting a 1996 standard/side console to a center console. jim johnson, c You should consider NOT converting your 17' Montauk to a center consule...but rather to a super side consule. I rerigged as such. So, I ended up with one (port) side which is a huge, very wide walk around path rather than two dinky ones. I brought my new side consule from the starboard gunnel to a foot or so beyond the midline to cover the rigging hole. I raised the free space beneath the consule sufficiently to move both the battery and a 6.6 gallon plastic fuel tank under the consule to put all this dead space to some good use. The result is a surprising amount of clutter free space aft and stern, and a real clean boat. I find that in rigging and using a small boat, that every sq. in. really counts, and you can waste it, proportionally really fast in a small boat by casually putting a battery box, fueltank, rocket launcher, antenna, etc. in any old here or there place. I think that the boat manufacturers just do not understand this.