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Bill

Not sure what the budget is, but here's a couple ideas. I'm kind of an electronics enthusiast and old ham radio guy, so marine electronics are important to me no matter what sized boat!!

Icom and Garmin both make "behind dash" radio units. M400BB and VHF300 respectively. There may be others...that was my 30-second google. This would be a nice clean solution since you can pack the head unit under the console, and just have the handset on the front of console. I'm sure they come with a nice handset bulkhead fitting.

For antenna, use a 3-ft stainless whip with a fixed or movable plastic mount. Looks like there's a few decent locations for that at the helm on your model. I attached a photo of my Montauk console where I use that antenna and mount. I would avoid anything with extensions and moving parts. On my mount, if I need to swing it back for storage or whatever, simple crank of the knob and it locks tilted back at any position. You could even consider a fixed-mount rubber-ducky antenna if range isn't that much of an objective. The 3-ft whip works very well me on the Chesapeake...even have amazing AIS coverage on GPS screen.

Hope this helps!!

Nick