Running Light wiring

[fillet1]

who can tell me where wellcraft ran the running light wires from the panel to the foredeck? I have a bunch of wires running everywhere inside my cabin to the lights. If Ican find the old wires i'd like to try to use them and clean up some of the mess inside.

[macojoe]

Well in my 1975 Cuddy the run in the fiberglass it self, on the celing. it is a double gray wire like speaker wire. it comes out in the Anchor locker to the bottom of the light and then out the celing near the inside of the dash.

Rear light is the same but runs from the switch thur the gunnel to the rear of the boat.

[chesapeake724]

In my '87 it went from the deck, into the headliner, into the front of the cabin liner, down into the anchor locker, under the cabin and up into the panel. It was actually secured in a couple places, I ran new wire. The old wire seemed like a light gauge, so I heavied it up to 12ga. and cut out as much of the old wire as possible.

[fillet1]

Chessy, ;D

Did you run your new wires under the headliner again? How did you fish the wires? If you ran them outside of the headliner how did you do it? (With a conduit of some sort?) My problem is that with wires running in the open areas of the "shelf" around the v-berth that soooner or later , something or someone is going to tangle and break them.

Is your headliner vinyl or glued carpet like mine? I have 2 lights on my fordeck on either side of the boat. (This is because I cant center mount a single light with the bow pulpit)

[macojoe]

I have no headliner in my boat, near as i can tell it never had one!!
So it just runs along the side nice and tight. No one ever goes in the cuddy any way in my boat!! I just use it for dry storage so it doesn't matter with me.

[chesapeake724]

I'm lucky in that the previous owner kept or put in a teak lip around the "shelf". Just going off memory (because the boat's at the shop), I poked through the headliner from above the deck w/ a philips screwdriver. (Put a small piece of plywood on the cabin liner so it stops the screwdriver.) Here's my cuddy before I rewired.
I ran the wire down to a plastic wiring clamp (screwing that in was fun with this stubby little screwdriver) on that shelf and ran the wires flat on the shelf to another clamp just behind that right, inside "corner" of the trim. The wires then just run behind the wood lip and then up behind the dash. How it's routed there I forget.

[reelapeelin]

F1...mine;s got two bow lights, too due to elec trollin' motor centered on bow... one + and one - from panel to high into the starboard cavity where cap and hull meet secured w/screw straps, thru bulkhead then to each light...hope this helps... ;) :D