I have turned my Bass Tracker into a Cat Tracker. When my steering cable broke I had a spare in the shed. The cable on the spare was too long so I had to do a little modifying. It started as a simple change and turned out to be a 3 day project costing about $150
I started off ripping the old floor up and removing the console along with front live well and battery box. Once I got the old plywood floor up I found that 4 of the support ribs were cracked in a few different places.
Got a 16' piece of 1x2 alluminum C channel cut it to fit the length of the supports and screwed them in with self tapping stainless screws.
Then went to Home Depot and got a 1" 4x8 sheet of insulation, a 8' piece of plastic gutter, and more stainless screws. I cut the insulation to fit between the supports.
Since I work on the outside of houses I had a couple pieces of 3/8" PVC board guarinteed not to rot. I cut it to fit in the floor of the boat and screwed it to the alluminum supports with the stainless self tapping screws.
I built a box out of 3/4x8 PVC to mount the steering box in and depth finder on the side of the boat and put a stick steer on it to give me much more room that having a console with a steering wheel. Then I used the plastic gutter to hide all the wires/cables and mount the toggle switches and ignition on.
Here is the final product.
