Gentleman wants me to rewire his boat

ultrahighgain · Post by **ultrahighgain** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:12 pm

Hello,

I am an electrical engineer, master electrician, and electro/mechanical tech. A fellow has asked me to redo the wiring in his twin engine Trojan boat. I have almost no familiarity with marine wiring, but hoped that you all could help me out. I am looking for electrical and or mechanical schematics and any other technical documents which might be useful. The hull number of his boat is 501 1008. I am not sure of the model, but was hopeful that is might be decernable from the hull number.
Engine 1# is 440 4596
Engine 2# is 440 0735

Any help or referrals would be greatly appreciated.

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 10:41 am

Really need the year and model #. The last 2 digits of the hull # are typically the year, but 08 can't be right....

Coralkong · Post by **Coralkong** » Tue Oct 02, 2007 8:10 pm

Give us the year and the model of the boat.

ultrahighgain · Post by **ultrahighgain** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:43 pm

1972 Sea Voyager

rossjo · Post by **rossjo** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:25 pm

Can't help with specifics on a 72 Sea Voyager, but will reinforce the obvious:

> tinned copper wiring (Ancor is the best),
> go a gage larger (14!) minimum while you're at it,
> heatshrink adhesive lined crimp ring terminals,
> 2 port, 2 starboard and 1 large house battery, with marine selector switches (Guest or Blue Sea) to intercionnect between them ( for startign in an eergency)
> 2 rear and 2 forward bildge pumps, with automatic floats and manual switches wired to seperate batteries (1 each front and rear to one each of the stbd and port batteries)
> chargers!
> throw away those old Perko lights and put in LEDs while you're at it
> solar panel(s) to feed 1 or more batteries "just in case"
> the list goes on ...