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NCBrew
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Initially Posted - 01/05/2010 :  04:46:21  Show Profile
I am replacing some of the wiring and can't find the route of some of them.

The port and starboard running light wire runs to the rear of the anchor locker but I can't find where it comes out aft of the anchor locker.


1998 Catalina 250WK
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Albemarle Sound,NC

I spent most of my money on boats and beer, the rest I just wasted.



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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  07:49:53  Show Profile



Mine, on a 1984 is coming in inside the main wiring harness. To the panel.

The line runs under the port side (under the liner I think), and is ganged together before getting to the panel.




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redeye
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  09:12:22  Show Profile
I've got one labeled wrong, the "Bow" light is the Steaming Light, or the light halfway up the mast.

The red wire called running is the red/Green light on the front of the boat.

I hope this helps, but of course I have no idea how your boat is wired.


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skrenz
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  09:39:44  Show Profile
Unfortunately a lot of the wiring for the Cat 25 was placed in the space between the ceiling and the outer shell so it is essentially impossible to get to. When I rewired Elan, I found that you can tuck the wires just above the teak trim strip that runs the whole length of the boat just below the hull to deck joint on the port side. Then pop out into the area behind the breaker box and hook them up again, abandoning the originals. Use stranded wire and good sealing connectors or connectors and shrink seal and each joint. I would use 14 gauge wire for this long of a run.

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NCBrew
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  11:59:23  Show Profile
Thanks to all.

I am going to bring the boat home so I can work on it in my back yard during these cold days and will return to the shipyard when it is warm enough to paint and do fiberglass repair. Besides I will get to sail it for the first time on the way home (and troll for Stripers too).

Patrick

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  14:20:45  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
Like Steve, I abandoned the original bow wiring. I also abandoned the crap factory lights on the old boat and installed a new halogen bow light on the pulpit. My new wiring runs through the anchor locker, along the teak trim in the V berth, into the head area, then under the setees to the wiring panel.

The anchor chain crushed the first wiring job I did causing a short. The wiring in the anchor locker is now run inside a PVC conduit sealed with silicon.

I have new bow lights, new stern light and new steaming light, all halogen. Brighter, less power than the original 1978.

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Stu Jackson C34
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  17:01:20  Show Profile
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by JimB517</i>
<br /> I also abandoned the crap factory lights on the old boat and installed a new halogen bow light on the pulpit. <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></font id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

What did you do with the old lights? Cover or fiberglass over them? Abandon them?

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/05/2010 :  17:48:45  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
The factory lenses are still there, just there are no bulbs in them.

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pastmember
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Response Posted - 01/06/2010 :  09:59:54  Show Profile
Jim, with an Ocean boat, shouldn't you glass over those holes in your bow?

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JimB517
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Response Posted - 01/06/2010 :  14:00:31  Show Profile  Visit JimB517's Homepage
Removing the lenses and glassing would be a good idea. However the lenses just lead into the anchor locker. The anchor locker is isolated from the boat. The anchor locker drains overboard. Flooding the anchor locker is not something to worry about (too much).

In about 10,000 miles of sailing my Catalina 25, sometimes in quite rough, offshore conditions, I've only put the bow under twice. And I have a heavy bow with 50 feet of 5/16 chain and a 13 lb anchor, plus 6 bags of sails in the V berth.

Probably happens more often on Lake Erie!

A bit of a thread hijack, but who has taken green water over the bow? I'm not talking spray but had the bow well submerged!

Who has had a large amount of water in the cockpit - from being pooped or heeled over so far a wave breaks in? I've never had this.

Freeboard is just right on the C25.

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Dave5041
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Response Posted - 01/07/2010 :  08:59:16  Show Profile
You are right about Lake Erie - something about the western basin only being about 35 ft deep and the eastern basin 70 - 140. Combine the depth with a few hundred miles of fetch, and it gets pretty short and steep. I bury the bow several times a year, usually when coming out of the Portage River into a stiff, northeast wind. I've only buried the bow once in the open lake, and one time a combination of a shift, gust, and errant wave put me over in the 80ยบ range - I was standing on the normally vertical port side of the cockpit footwell and it got pretty wet.

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glen
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Response Posted - 01/07/2010 :  10:35:00  Show Profile
A lot of salties smirk at Great Lake sailors, until they sail them. Yes the stories are true, and I have danced with Erie. I am glad I have a dodger

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