Plastic Classic Forum

Your rode system is more than adequate for your boat, (3/8" G4 is massively strong) although you don't say what weights your anchors are. Be very cautious with "off brand" generic copies of famous anchors. Recent anchor testing has shown that original, name brand Bruce Claw anchors se...

I have a typical boat from the 70's with the two large non-opening port lights port and starboard - it seems like every maker all over the world adhered to this stylistic approach. But they don't open of course, and one of them leaked. The original fasteners were terribly corroded - some could not b...

I'm going to add the inverter that James recommends in the video - that large round black thing on the plywood cover is the switch for that. You can see the cascade of wires coming down on the right, mainly for the cabin lights. I was going to remove them and replace all that as well but this boat h...

Everything has been cleaned up and I'm starting to install the foundation strips and busses.
Here you can see the negative and positive busses in place.
And the final panel as it stands now.

This boat had a nice, well sized and constructed heavily built panel area as you can see - solid ply backing glassed to the hull which was ALMOST big enough for the two terminal strips - I screwed them to wooden slats and screwed the slats to the backing. w3.JPG This next photo is pretty much as it ...

Just wanted to say Hi, and show my recently accomplished rewiring of my Contest 31. I'll try to attach pictures in multiple posts. I have a 1972 C31, made in Holland, and it had the original wiring in it, which had been crudely added to over 50 years, but never cleaned up or repaired. In short, the ...