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• There's been some posts about boat wiring, fires onboard give me the willies.
  • In doing some work, I removed a piece of burned bulkhead in my boat.
    • I never found out exactly what burned that lobsterboat up.
      • Tom, I had a guy in the store two weeks ago...
        • Latest Hamilton ordered shows as "in the garage"
          • Buy by the pound...
      • It could have been anything... including add-on equipment
        • This is one of the things that has kept me from "plugging in"
    • Looks like several bullet holes in that piece alone!
  • I let the smoke out of the breaker box YESTERDAY
    • Something isn't going to work!
  • OCPD
    • I saw those over on your site. That's a great idea!
      • Fusing the house bank is a requirement..
        • Thanks. It doesn't make much sense to preclude the starting cable, does it.
    • Instead of fuses, we use
      • If the fuses are properly sized..
        • Agree with your points. Our problem was that the
  • Our friend's J-42 close call