Recent content by Merlin

Brine, you should be good to go with the #10 Here is a link to a post I made in another thread that includes a link to wire size and length. Hopefully this will help you https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18499

Awesome, I have the same boat. All the way down to the green paint on the floor. Can't wait to see how yours comes out. I did a quick low budget build on mine this year and posted some picks https://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=18498 Might give you some ideas on what or what not...

I put all my gear in my truck box when I'm not on the water (that includes trailering). Boat is stored in the garage when not in use. If I stop, I try to park where I can keep an eye on everything, but a thief is a thief and if they see a chance to take something, they will try.

I can't count the number of times I've done that :LOL2:

The chance of a short to ground on a boat is realitively low since boats aren't chassis grounded, but since there is a chance, I always protect my power circuits with fuses or circuit breakers. Especially if the power and ground wires are running in the same conduit

And make sure that your wire to the TM and buss bars is protected by a fuse

Correct, every load should be protected with a fuse! There is no need to go nuts (oversize) with wire sizes, but in most cases, people use too small of a wire for the current load they are trying to power up and as mentioned above, sometimes they over fuse the wire. In theory, if a power wire...

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Nice! Can't wait til the season opens up here

A bus bar gives you a point to attach multiple wires to one feed, as long as there is continuity from one end to the other, it doesn't matter where the wires are connected Select a gauge of wire that will support the total current draw of all the circuits (plus 50%)and make sure you use a fuse...

Brine, I just went through this thread and your boat build. Rather impressive engineering! I am definately going to steal some of your ideas when I redo my Hooptie project. Lots of great information and out of the box thinking. Great job!

I remember seeing people "worm growling" had to look around to find the info. Here is a link https://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=09-P13-00011&segmentID=8

number of people = the vessel length in feet times the vessel width in feet divided by 15 For example if your boat is 14 feet long and 4 feet wide, your boat's capacity would be 14 x 4 / 15, which is 56. To figure out the passenger weight capacity is to take the formula above and figure out...

I found this formula one day that might help you number of people = the vessel length in feet times the vessel width in feet divided by 15 For example if your boat is 12 feet long and 4 feet wide, your boat's capacity would be 12 x 4 / 15, which is 3.2 To figure out the passenger weight...

Thanks. I stumbled onto this site by accident. I guess I wasn't using the right keywords when I did my search. :LOL2: This was my first attempt and from the information and ideas I gathered so far, I have already made plans for a complete re-do next fall.