Mount for Control Head, Lift Ring and Throttle

 Above and below showing the control head and mocked up mounting. The shaft needs to be shortened. Cutting off the handle was a big leap as there is no going back now. There will be a nice bit of room on either side of the head for storage. The motor well/plumbing fittings sit directly behind the control head and the wires are amply long to reach the motor.  The battery wires will have to be lengthened.

 Flush mount lift ring installed on back deck hatch.  Made two test runs on scrap wood and it fit perfectly, no chips or dings.  Moved on to the boat and was dismayed to see two small chips in surrounding wood. There is no justice. If you squint your eyes and look at it slightly askance, the chips are not so noticeable.

 This, below,  is the throttle/fwd/rev control. I searched the local architectural salvage place for something to use that was a bit funky, this is what I found.   It started life as a door handle, I also found the brass plate.  The square shaft fit nicely into the hole and much to my surprise, if I slid the little button up it locked the shaft into what shall be called the neutral/off position.  To operate the boat one must push the little button down to operate the handle. BTW, the handle is bronze and the plate is brass.  Very nautical or screen doorish as you please.

 Above and below are pics of the mocked up mount.  Turns out I got it right the first time and the shaft goes through the seat thwart at a 90 degree angle. The parts and pieces have been removed and will be painted before re installing.

 What in the world is this? The square shaft attached to the handle/throttle was much to small to fit in the hollow of the shaft of the control head (the bit that sticks out through the seat thwart in one of the pics above) so I whittled a rock maple plug of appropriate size, fitted it the the handle shaft and immersed the whole in a puddle of epoxy, all in a scrap of the shaft yielding (I hope) a perfect fit when cured and removed from the scrap piece. The bit sticking up threads into the handle and is secured with a set screw.  Progress!