Thanks for all the ideas so far. I won't be at the boat for another
week but am collecting everyone's suggestions and will bring a meter
to the boat next time and jumper cables to set up an alternative
ground connection.

The engine did run fine after the battery was installed so that part
is ok (no plastic caps left on!) I did try wriggling all the wires
and the harness with the blower on but no response. Also the 3 red
cricuit breaker buttons on the engine are not tripped. There is a
mini 10-amp fuse near the positive terminal of the battery on a
separate smaller wire that is blown, not sure what that runs so will
replace that anyways.

Any further thoughts are welcome!

Inno



On May 22, 7:32 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 22 May 2007 15:44:11 -0700, JR North
wrote:

Connect a jumper cable between the NEG terminal and engine block. Joy?
Clean the ground point on the engine.

I was going to suggest using a coat hanger and test the power of the
battery by jumping positive and negative.

Hmmm - on second thought...

DON"T TRY THAT!!!