Rewired the Arima - Finally

[GregE]

Bandaid and I bought our Arima Sea Legend 22  15 months ago but with house remodel and selling, other house remodel and new shop/ garage... we didn't get it on the water until last year.

I added a VHF with DCS and a Lowrance HDS 5X fish finder that had good detail to an older Furono combination and Garmin plotter and noticed there was a real birds nest of wires behind the instrument panel, wires tagged together, in-line fuses more than I could count easily and the battery area in the rear was much the same.  The main supply wire to the cockpit was 10 guage and the installed plotter and  radar/ plotter/ FF weren't linked and didn't work well.  The fuel flow meter didn't work, the fuel guage was intermittant, the kicker Hobbes meter was dead.



After asking around I finally found a certified boat electrician that spoke my level of wiring knowledge and would work me in. 

I got the Arima back after a complete rewire of the rear connectors and main power feed to the front ( 6 gau), buss bars front and back and isolated battery system for engine and another for systems and DRs.  It has a charging sensor so both batteries will charge without having to align the selectors.  My plotter, GPS, FF and  VHF are 'talking NMEA' and the Furono radar is happily turning. 

Thanks to Tim Laur at Gull Harbor Yacht Services-  a certified marine electrician that does good work.  He's in Olympia  but also works in Grays Harbor as Deputy Sheriff.   http://www.ghyacht.com/index.html

I'm looking for some 'before pictures' but let your imagination go-     yep it was that bad.  Here's what we have now








Time to get her back out on the water!!!!  Planning on Westport for Kings 

[gasman]

Nice   

I think I have rewired every boat that I have had over the years. None we as tedious as yours, but I feel your pain.

[jeepster]

looks good!

........i dont even wanna think about my boat... im going to ignore it one more year and do all of that this winter....

[jordano]

wow! that sure looks like you did a great job on that! gorgeous boat!

[SeaRun1]

Well it looks great now and you have the peace of mind of knowing it is done properly.  I rewired my boat completely from the space case that had my boat before me.  I would recommend everyone do a complete rewire as you know your boat very well by the time you are done with the job.

SeaRun1