IAIA3259
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I have just bought a shadow 26 and the previous owner has lost all the instruction books and as he hasn't used her for 3 years says he cant even remember where the fuse box is !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HELP has anyone got a shadow 26 HELP
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boatone
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Can't help with an instruction book, but probably the best thing you can, and should, do is to crawl all over that boat on a voyage of discovery. Find out visually where everything is and examine each compartment. Identify switches and wiring runs - alternator to battery etc - and really give yourself a first class physical appreciation of where everything is.
You'll learn far more than from reading an instruction book, most of which are pretty cursory anyway, and previous owners are almost certain to have changed a few things - often not for the better !
A good crawl round the various spaces is great fun and you'll discover things you really should be aware of !
byron
RIP
Shadow Boats
Riverside Estate
Brundall
Norwich
Norfolk NR13 5PL
Telephone: 01603 712362
Email: sales@shadowboats.co.uk
Chris_d
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Boats generaly don't come with instruction books and most are so modified from a standard that they would be useless anyway. I've looked over several examples of my own boat and each one had the swtiches fuses etc in completely different positions as supplied from the factory. Its better to just crawl around your own boat and get to know it, part of the appeal is that every boat is unique.
Andrew_Fanner
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An instruction book won't tell you things like "if you turn the fridge on before firing up the engine it blows the fuse on the VHF" and other idiosyncacies of individual boats. A rundown of what equipment you have posted here will do two things.
1. Satisfy our curiosity as to what toys you have
2. Probably get links to online versions and offers of scanned user manuals
Of boats I have owned, finding the fuse box has consisted before now of tracing wires until they clump together and/or opening up every panel I could find.
1. Satisfy our curiosity as to what toys you have
2. Probably get links to online versions and offers of scanned user manuals
Of boats I have owned, finding the fuse box has consisted before now of tracing wires until they clump together and/or opening up every panel I could find.
IAIA3259
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Byron
That was my first call I tried that two weeks ago by email then followed up last week no reply to either
Boatone,Chris,Andrew
I am used to playing boat builder hide and seek BUT ! Been there tried that
I followed the cables from the master switches and all the wires vanish into a large loom then that goes through a fibreglass moulded channel under the fuel tank, so next move is to go to the helm and remove an engine control panel just to see all the wires go down and forwards into large loom, that helps so off I go into the heads that is just forward of the helm and remove the only access panel in there but I thought I must have now found the fuse box because it is roughly where the wires vanish BUT to find just the shower empty pump, oh well never mind go the cabin switch panel and follow from there, again no help just to find that they vanish into another moulded fibreglass channel.
No real toys but she has been lying unused for three years in fact he had to have one of the engines re-built as it had siezed so in the deal was a full service on the other engine and both legs, plus anti-foul, its just the electrics that have a few gremlins (and green or black wires)
That was my first call I tried that two weeks ago by email then followed up last week no reply to either
Boatone,Chris,Andrew
I am used to playing boat builder hide and seek BUT ! Been there tried that
I followed the cables from the master switches and all the wires vanish into a large loom then that goes through a fibreglass moulded channel under the fuel tank, so next move is to go to the helm and remove an engine control panel just to see all the wires go down and forwards into large loom, that helps so off I go into the heads that is just forward of the helm and remove the only access panel in there but I thought I must have now found the fuse box because it is roughly where the wires vanish BUT to find just the shower empty pump, oh well never mind go the cabin switch panel and follow from there, again no help just to find that they vanish into another moulded fibreglass channel.
No real toys but she has been lying unused for three years in fact he had to have one of the engines re-built as it had siezed so in the deal was a full service on the other engine and both legs, plus anti-foul, its just the electrics that have a few gremlins (and green or black wires)