[bljones]

colsen, I have been where you are: knew what I needed to do, didn't know how to do it. I started here:
Boat Joinery and Cabinet Making Simplified: Fred Bingham: 9780070053076: Amazon.com: [email protected]@[email protected]@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/[email protected]@[email protected]@51xytR4OOXL

I now have two copies. One i keep in my workshop and still reference regularly, and one i keep on the boat and regularly loan out.

 

[bljones]

Personally, having a boat (for sale, btw, shameless plug) with a transverse bench dinette layout, we decided that our NextBoat would not have a dinette.