Easy Mark you look a little left then a little right lol.
Much more intuitive than a standard aircraft panel.

Mine are split in half

I'm thinking a layout like this.

No reason to have the hour meters in the dash. I'd move them.

That layout the gauges look a little too close to one another with bezels.

I was just going to say the same thing. You beat me to it.

The less you have to look at the better off you will be. Put the voltmeters together.

My plan is to paint the panel red with all white gauges. I was not planning on adding bezels. Using the gauges right out of the box. The circles shown are "actual sizes". As far as placement, I was thinking the closer the better for a quick look and comparison which is my goal. I don't really have another spot for the hour meters. I have the room in the panel and they don't bother me installed there. I bought the new hour meters to keep track of the time on the rebuilt engines and thought I would mount the old ones in the engine compartment to keep track of total hours on the boat. I know it's not necessary but when I sell the boat down the road the new owner might appreciate the info. I placed the "voltmeters" in an effort to keep symmetry with the overall display. I really wanted everything side by side but out of all of the gauges, the voltmeters to me were the least important (not counting the hour meters) I guess that gauge placement is what you're used too? What came from the factory? Again for me, I never warmed up to mine being in a line and think this layout will be better. I will keep looking at this current layout for a while to make sure it's what I want before having the panel cut for me.

i like them in my line of sight by importance, oil temp pressure and so on. staggered port to starboard

This is a pic of a Hustler for sale on this site. This layout is what I am going for. I think my gauges are as close to "line of site" as I can get. nocigarette, did your boat come like that or is that your layout design? It seems to me that one look to the left is better than back and forth. All what you're used to I suppose.

Think of all the hours of vacuuming you could have saved just by throwing a cover on the boat .. that is a lot of wood dust . don`t drop a match!!!


Ive never found myself wishing the gauges were closer together....