New Battery Shelf...

Well, a project I started over a week ago (new battery box shelf) got a little further... Note nice sailboat "shop" in photo... yes, that's inside the boat! and was cleaned up before I went to bed. The "tortures" of living and working on the sailboat, one has to actually clean one's mess up to live!
You see, the original battery box for the boat only holds two batteries, and I now have two, what they call, golf cart batteries in that box, which essentially make up what is called the "house battery bank." With that space used up, I need a new place for the separate "starter battery." All these batteries are connected to a battery switch, which can be off, battery bank 1 on, battery bank 2 on, or combo 1 and 2. I've got the house battery on 1 and the starter battery on 2. I use combo to start the sailboat engine, but switch to 1 when i only need to use interior electronics, which "saves" at least one battery (the starter battery), for just in cases.
I used a helpful hint from Beth to use cardboard for template making the very difficult to measure curvature of the sailboat hull for the new shelf. See reuse of triscuit box before it went to the recycle center ;)
Thank you Brian for letting me use once again the all important jig-saw!
As always, Patty-cakes must always be where the action is... She is down in the storage compartment area that I have to lower myself down into to work on the battery banks. The original battery bank is the white box with the little round holes in it beneath my new cut pieces of shelf that will go between the original box and the sailboat hull. The crappy streaks on the hull I can't figure how to clean. They appeared when i applied some strange chemical stuff that's suppose to prevent mildew... Patty is actually facing towards Athena's engine "room."
A very long day and a mess in the boat created yet another somewhat temporary fix for holding the starter battery. Still more work left to do (painting, gluing, re nailing with longer nails, getting a 3-inch strap to hold the battery box & battery in place...not to mention i may need to change out some of the wood i used since i'm not sure it was the best kind to use...), but ran out of time for this work session. I did re hookup the batteries to the new battery switch, not yet installed completely... it's so nice to have the lights that run on the battery back up and running again, and so nice to have electricity to the bilge pump again... a little water had collected apparently, as the auto switch came on with the power up.