Thanks Will. I have been remiss in not updating this deal. I did finish out what I wanted to get done. The wiring, with a couple of exceptions, had been replaced about three years ago. The only wire I totally replaced was the bow navigation lights - they were toast.

This image is the backboard I glassed to the port inside of the console. I mounted a six position fuse panel - it has its own ground buss - and a separate ground buss that serves the switch panel on the console. The extra coil of wiring is the tag ends for the unused fuse positions. This way if I add something in the future I won't have to be taking the wiring all the way to the fuse panel. I can pick up the battery and the ground leads off the coil and splice them in. BTW I used heat shrink splices that are totally waterproof in about half the connections (mainly the smaller wires). I used soldered connection with heavy heat shrink on the others (mainly the larger wires). I find that splices do not hold well on wire larger than than about 12 gauge.


When you compare this next photo to the original you can see the work. The cloth looking strip is a piece of Kevlar strapping that the phone company uses to pull cable through an underground duct. It is extremely flexible, small, and yet has an 1800 pound breaking strength. I found it next to a pit they were working in and they gave it to me. I have it in place from the transom to the console. There is enough there that I can tie it together into a continuous loop. If I need to pull more wiring, I use the loop and pull it through and the tape stays in place for the next wiring job.




This is the transom part of the wiring. You can see the other end of the Kevlar tape in the bundle. That tape was a life saver! All the black looking stuff on the left side of this pic is simply dirt/grease/oil. I am in the process of cleaning all that up as well.



The neat part is that I now have a ton of room under my console on the shelf, and more importantly, everything works!! Actually, everything worked the first time with no mistakes! I amazed myself! I have a spreadsheet with 4everything listed by terminal number, switch number, and if applicable, wire color. Thanks for everyone's encouragement. Had I not found CSC I would probably have lived with the mess!