On 25 May 2007 06:19:04 -0700, b393capt
wrote:

- In addition to checking your work, will spot hazardous conditions
caused by people before you ... and really, you cannot have any faith
in someone who didn't use color coded wiring.

Thanks, we both agree the wiring leaves a lot to be desired but
redoing the whole thing at one time is too big an undertaking for now.
At the moment I'm just trying to straighten out the worst of the
previous owner(s) haywire and not make anything worse.

The color coding issue is common to most boats built in the far east,
Singapore in my case. Although it's a mystery to us, they did have a
standard that they were following and there are number tags on every
wire that was factory installed. Now it's my job to try and
understand it, and fix the worst of any short comings. This is a 50
ft trawler with a lot of hidden wiring, 2 generators, an inverter and
probably over a mile of circuits. Even with all of the PO's haywire
it has been doing OK for 26 years and many thousands of sea miles.