Shaun Van Poecke wrote:
Hi all,
Will hopefully be wiring up a boat in the next few months (thunderbird 26)
that has no existing wiring. It will be a pretty standard sort of a setup;
a couple of batteries, nav lights, cd player, compass light, GPS, wiring to
outboard and solar panel. Ive done a fair bit of wiring in the past and
dont have trouble making up a decent quality loom with color coded wiring,
spade connectors and heat shrink.

What im wondering is, does standard wiring do the job well enough here, or
do you use marine specific stuff? Standard battery terminals, standard
spade connectors? are most people running their wiring inside conduit, or
just using a wiring wrap to keep things tidy? Do you coat the finished
product in anything, especially in places like the back of fuse boards or
other panels? Any other things i need to keep in mind here?

Thanks,
Shaun


You should use marine specific stuff and, in particular, I would
strongly recommend to use marine-tinned wire.
For an almost complete text on wiring a boat:
Charlie Wing: Boatowner's illustrated handbook of wiring, International
Marine, Camden, Maine.
You can order it easily on the internet.

Daniel