16 hours later

[Seapig100]

Spent 16 hours cleaning up some of the wiring. I installed a magnum 2000 watt inverter so I can run my refrigerator without the generator running. I found three 12 volt lines of various gauges live and just capped with electrical tape. Then there were the multiple y splices that I had to eliminate. Then after that mess I tore into the house stereo. All the speakers were rotted away and the noise coming out of them could not be called music.I installed a new amplifier head unit and six new speakers. I rewired all the speakers also. Now I am sitting here drinking a beer and listening too my new radio. If my batteries drop to 10 volts the generator will start and charge the batteries. My 5 year old is sleeping in the v berth we are staying out here until Tuesday night.

 

[Seapig100]

The end result.

 

[Tinman]

Have done that to almost every boat I bought. Generally the worst is under the helm on the fybridge. Most of which is the handy work of professional electronic techs.

 

[Pascal]

I have been pulling hundreds of feet of wires from my 1970 53... some of it made it wonder how the boat has survived almost a half century. The worst is that most of it was factory original with splices in places that were unreachable. The worst one was crimping of th port and stbd shore power wires using a split but connector and sold of electrical tape to carry 50amps... i guess it worked.

 

[racclarkson@gmail.com]

Same here. The good news is you always have an abandoned cable of some sort with which to pull your new cables. I'm on the Trump wiring program: For every new wire added, I have to remove two old ones.

 

[SEVEN]

I feel for you guys. It's amazing what PO will do to cut corners. Do it right or not at all is my motto.

 

[Seapig100]

It really is not that hard to do it right. There were 2 of us working on it we put 32 man hours into it.

 

[Freeebird]

That definitely brings back memories. My 58 had God knows how many feet of wire I removed that was just... there. Some of it wasn't hooked to anything on either end, some was hooked to things it shouldn't be, and some was full of splices. It was simply amazing and mind boggling that anybody would ever do such things like that in the first place.

Some of the plumbing was equally impressive. I traced a leak in the guest stateroom ceiling back to the plumbing on an icemaker in the pilothouse and found three T-s within a two foot section of waterline. I mean, seriously?

 

[mykim]

It always amazing the amount of hot bare wires we find in these older boats. People have likely paid someone to do the work and the mechanics just leave a mess. Today I replaced 8 halogen lights with LED's in one of my heads. Again I as dumfounded by the crappy job someone did before me.

 

[Seapig100]

I have more work to do. There are solid romex wires going somewhere.

 

[Boatsb]

Not just hatt have this issue.

 

[bigbill]

my 58 yf was repowered by the government under a contract to remove the old engines and replace with new engines, the contract didn't mention the old wiring. all of the old detroit diesel wiring was left in the boat, and i mean ALL of it. i pulled about 2 -55 gallon drums worth of old wiring out

 

[BOATER BOB]

Yep rewired my 53SF that had a 25kw Gen pulled enough wire out to fill up back of pickup truck.
Bob

 

[Walter P]

Look at the bright side guys.....the scrap value of all that copper wire will pay for..........very little.

Walt

 

[SEVEN]

Look at the bright side guys.....the scrap value of all that copper wire will pay for..........very little.

Walt

Good point. Lol

 

[wpc691]

Look at the bright side guys.....the scrap value of all that copper wire will pay for..........very little.Walt

Copper is rallying...I'm leaving my "spare" wiring in place for now.

 

[krush]

easy peezy.

 

[SEVEN]

Omg

 

[Entonces]

GOOD LAWD Krush!!!

 

[Boatsb]

Mine looked like that with a Flybridge covering some of it.

It's something about these old boats not wanting to part with their old wiring.