Snakes nest

[zoidberg]

When peering and poking at a boat you might buy, with a view to gauging how much work, sweat and money you'd need to commit...
...in addition to checking the rusty keelbolts, probing the gelcoat blisters and slicing chunks from your hands on spiky rigging, let me suggest you drop the 'lecky instruments panel and have a butchers.

You might find this kind of horror!

I was confronted with something similar - generations of bad 'lecky bodging - behind the nav instruments in a Rival 34 which interested me. The owner was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Electrical Engineers.
He took a similar approach to the maintenance of his engine, underwater openings and standing rigging.

 

[mjcp]

Or a fellow who chartered and therefore thought he knew boats and EE ?

 

[thinwater]

My last boat was owned by an elelctrical engineer. Smart, I presume, but his shoddy practical electrical work caused one incipient fire.

The problem was not a snakes nest. The problem was stuffing an extra wire into a quick-connect fitting, and then hiding it under a fabric hull liner. He didn't do much, so I traced it all down and revised it as needed. The factory wire was a joy, just not his "upgrades."

 

[LittleSister]

. . . The owner was a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Electrical Engineers. . .

My last boat was owned by an elelctrical engineer. . .

The cobbler's wife is always the worst shod!