Boat is home

[fellinger]

Good luck! It is a nice day for it. Sometimes it looks worse than it really is.

[Andys Delight]

Cleared all the wires to the switches and put in the new wiring to the new fuse box.  Added fuses, crossed my fingers, hit the battery switch annnnndddd.......SUCCESS!!!  Everything worked!  I'm actually quite shocked and impressed with myself.  Now I just have to ziptie and clean up all the new wires, screw the new fuse box to the wall, and wait for my order of marinetex to come so I can fill in all the old worn out screw holes, sand and drill new ones and button it all up.  Now I know every connection in the boat and feel alot more confident that they won't let me down at sea.   

[NJ Guy]

Awesome Mike!


Told ya bro lol not that scary 

[BigAl13]

way to go. little sweat equals alot of piece og mind

[Scott G.]

   NICE JOB   

[Reel McCoy]

Great Job 

[pilot2550]

Good for you.  Nice when you accomplish somethinging that appears intimidating at first. Now it's time to post up the after pics. 

[Andys Delight]

Good for you.  Nice when you accomplish somethinging that appears intimidating at first. Now it's time to post up the after pics. 

Still a ways off from pics.  I'm still tucking them away and zip tying them .  The new fusebox is tucked in and fastened.  I had to use one of the old ones to accommodate 3 extra connections.  I used it only for components with inline fuses.  I didn't mess with the motor harness wires at all and don't plan to.  Those wires are in good shape but admittedly messy.  Left on my checklist is to continue organizing the wires, put in new LED Spreaders and rewire them, marine tex the existing console, create a new dashboard template out of starboard and put all tachs and switches on the new dash, change waterpump/impeller, change zincs, And then compound, polish, and wax the whole thing.

Then she goes swimming 

[BigAl13]

Not too big of a laundry list

[Hunter 2]

Daylight savings time is coming too.  That always helps when working on the boat.

[Andys Delight]

Daylight savings time is coming too.  That always helps when working on the boat.

Yup, I suspect alot of this will be done by next week.  Believe it or not I have the go ahead to slip it anytime I want, but no water or electricity till April.  I want to get in on some of those Capt Carl back bay early striper specials 

[IKAT]

Daylight savings time is coming too.  That always helps when working on the boat.

Yup, I suspect alot of this will be done by next week.  Believe it or not I have the go ahead to slip it anytime I want, but no water or electricity till April.  I want to get in on some of those Capt Carl back bay early striper specials  

WHOOO HOOOO

Back bay stripers

PS Mike I have all Misner hole saws if you need--just call

[Andys Delight]

LED Spreaders came in today as well as the Marinetex.  Got some supplies on my lunch break and am gonna start working this evening.  Gonna decide if I want to pull back shrink to do the spreaders, or just sand down all the old worn screw holes on the console and fill them with Marinetex.  Spreaders would be so much more fun but I know Once I pull back that cover it's gonna snow. 

[BigAl13]

Im not gonna give advice here but i would pull the plastic

[Andys Delight]

Plastic is pulled, spreaders wired and working.  Free set of working halogens to the first person who can take them at the banquet.

[fellinger]

Plastic is pulled, spreaders wired and working.  Free set of working halogens to the first person who can take them at the banquet.

Put them aside for me. At least now I know I am "winning" something!

Fred

[Andys Delight]

Plastic is pulled, spreaders wired and working.  Free set of working halogens to the first person who can take them at the banquet.

Put them aside for me. At least now I know I am "winning" something!

Fred

Done!  See you there.

[Pops Soul]

Mike I hope you carried a big note pad through this project so youmade yourself lots of notes. Mike Velcro makes a wrap thats nicer when you get near the your switches, makes it a little easier if you run into a problem. 

[Andys Delight]

Mike I hope you carried a big note pad through this project so youmade yourself lots of notes. Mike Velcro makes a wrap thats nicer when you get near the your switches, makes it a little easier if you run into a problem. 

Sure did, not only that but I've labeled the new fuse box and have labels along the wires.  I now know what every wire in that boat does, and I've also made it much easier to track them down through the walls.  It's a pretty good feeling. 

[Andys Delight]

Finishing up the marinetex work today.  Also rerunning the daisy chain connections for dashlights and tachlights.  Starboard coming tomorrow, then I will carefully map out and cut it to fit as my new dashboard and transfer everything over to it.   

Water pump, 2 low pressure fuel pumps, shift position switch relay all on their way.  Will do the engine work next week and then clean, compound, polish, and wax the whole thing and she's headed back to the marina, hopefully to drop her in.

2 and a half years ago I joined this site without much of a clue.  Pretty proud of the things I've accomplished with a ton of help from all of you guys.