If you like Simrad I found a great deal yesterday!

[GregL]

RadioWorld.ca has a G09 SXE for $999..great deal! Maybe it was an old sign but if your looking one, doesn't hurt to call'm

Would love to put a G09 in my dash anybody want to buy a G07 HAHA!

[Fort Wisers]

That setup looks nice!

[GregL]

That setup looks nice!

Thanks!! It was a fun covid project, darn covid!! Made from scratch

2 trips in a row our livewell would not turn on one day then it would the next, same deal with our nav lights! I pulled the dash and saw the birds nest of wires..
Called Alumacraft when we got home for a wiring schema. They said "Sorry, we don't have one. We get the wiring harness from china".

You'll see all the negative leads in the pic on the bottom right. From the factory all those negatives were crimped into 1 big butt joint, with one lead to the battery! Good luck finding a bad ground.

Being the fussy bored guy that I was, I rewired it all! Everything labeled and clean! This is the way a boat should come with what they charge for them!

[Fort Wisers]

I'm dealing with a bird's nest on our boat as we speak.......

It started as an investigation why the VHF radio never worked and has turned into a partial gut and redo.
In our case I don't think it was so much the original factory work but all the add-in's installed by the previous owner(s).
Butt slices barely crimped on, some exposed twisted connections and a slew of tie-wraps oh so many needless tie wraps.
Someone even installed a "tie-wrap bridge" (I'm really not sure what else to call it) from one side of the console interior to the other, the only purpose I can see is they then used this "bridge" to hold up (with another tie wrap) a single wire up, not even a cable, just a single run of 16AWG wire, I have yet to track down what this wire does lol.
The general area I'm working on has a factory harness about 4 feet long, with maybe a half dozen add-ons added in, I have cut out 52 tie wraps, found 3 butt slices that were so poorly crimped that a gentle tug pulled them apart and 2 completely exposed bare wire connections.......some people shouldn't do electrical, period.

The rest of the boat seems to have been well taken care of, full history of service, everything is clean and in decent shape, but the electrical is a mess.


Your clean-up looks really great, nice work.
You are correct, that is how wiring should be done.

[GregL]

Yup, had that on my old ranger as well. Gotta wonder sometimes haha! It's a fun mystery to solve though:)

[Greg]

Beautiful job Greg!  Looks perfect.