Posted by wcoates1 on 06/18/10 - 6:06 AM
#1
The wire circuit that runs inside the hull from the stern connection block up to the bow light has deteriorated back at the point where the wire exits the hull at the connection block. There is not enough wire protruding out of the wire hole to make a repair splice with new wire. As the wire was foamed in place, there is no way to pull a new wire.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to make this repair?
Posted by Bake on 06/18/10 - 7:01 AM
#2
The wire should be in the rub rail. take the insert out of the rub and you should find the wire. If not you can drill through the rub into the hull and run your wire.
Posted by Tom W Clark on 06/18/10 - 7:11 AM
#3
The duplex wire that runs to the bow light is not foamed in place, it does not run through the hull. It runs inside the rub rail as bake points out.
Replacement of this wire is very simple; peel the rub rail insert out and place the new wire in the receiver track. Then reinstall the insert.
The wire will pass through a hole in the gunwale in the stern by the terminal block and again at the bow light itself.
I suggests you use ANCOR's 16 ga. marine grade (tinned) speaker wire. It is inexpensive, small enough to fit in the rub rail and vastly superior to the un-tinned 18 ga. lamp cord that Whaler used originally.