Battery Placement

well the box really isn't in the bilge there is a wall that separates it from that area and the drain for the battery box dumps into the bilge. You don't need to run the wires through the PVC that the other wires are ran through there is a smaller piece of pvc that paralell's the other main tube that goes from the bat box to the bilge area.

For location it is basicly the centerline of the boat with the forward edge of the box basicly even with the footrest starts to slope up and makes that 4-5" transition into the bow from the main floor. maybe bak an inch or two with the long side of the box running bow to stern.

copcraft, the set up youre proposing sounds very similar to how the newer boats are set up. Here is a pic of whats going on under my floor. '79 is right- a seperate PVC tube is run from the battery box through the bulkhead for the battery cables.

Actually, the hull was the bottom of the battery box on my 72 ski tique. I remember drilling a drain hole in what i thought was the battery box to let it drain into the bilge, and then heard water hitting the shop floor.