Help!...Electrical problem

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While buffing my boat today I dropped the cord connection in the water accidently. It was plugged into the cockpit exterior outlet by the cabin door.

I reset the dock power and the ship power and everything worked...except the outlets. After reseting the outlet breaker on the panel by the cabin stairwell still no outlet power at any outlet. I Replaced the 30 amp outlets breaker with a new one and still no power to the outlets..everything else works normally.
The boat is a 1985 sundancer 34.

any ideas?
 
Have you reset the gfi?

Its supposed to be in the head in the medicine cabinet.
 
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Mine is on the dinette aft bench seat under the table. All the cabin outlets are daisy chained through the GFI. Reset it and you will probably be fine.
 
Just think, I you fell overboard with it you would be dead now.Water and electricity is like gasoline and matches
 
Mine is in the medicine cabinet. If it is bad, got to Home Dept and get a new one. Unplug all the feed lines to the boat first. That does run all the plugs on your boat.
 
Thanks guys. Looked everywhere for a gfi..didnt think to look in the medicine chest..and I replaced it two years ago!

appreciate the reminder. That was the fix.
 
Just think, I you fell overboard with it you would be dead now.Water and electricity is like gasoline and matches

Isn't the GFI supposed to prevent electrocution in these type of situations?
 
Isn't the GFI supposed to prevent electrocution in these type of situations?

Yup, if all was working properly no electrocution would've happened.
 
Maybe pull out the receptacle you were plugged in to and make sure the ends of the wires connected to it are healthy and not burned. If there is any damage, the fix is cheap and easy.
 
Don't ask me how I knew ... I'm glad it worked out for you
 

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