If I'm following you right, Craig, above the c'panionway, on the centerline is where you think it would best serve its purpose? That's where I'd really like it to reside lacking any binacle mount. Having never driven outside the sight of land I have no real experience with a compass above the water's surface.

Ebb, for some unknown reason I've never appreciated instrument heads mounted on the bulkhead. Couple that with sheets and lines hanging around there and I could see it getting cluttered. Sure, we plan to have sheet bags mounted at the forward end of the c'pit but that doesn't add any more room. An instrument dash board at the front of the c'panionway is-1 just another idea I stole-2 an easy place to spot them for lack of clutter in the area-3 a little more out of sight of the general riff-raff ( of which, I am generally a member of).

Since festering on this idea I gave some thought to molding them into the underside of the aft edge of the hard dodger either side of the head's pathway. I dunno, even with a nice taper the shape would have to terminate in a 4 1/2" square This dodger will be too small, in my opinion, for a stunt like that. Thought about the vertical edges too, but, same reply from me. We could put a sharp angle on the terminal edge, kinda like a hood scoop used to be, but I'm afraid they migh get hard to read. Hmmm, no doubt, the compass has to go up front.

This is a query that could be better served with pictures. Pictures and beer!