CaptainH
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I am in process of rewiring my instrament & switch panel. I am a first time owner so not much experience with this. The boat came with a retrofit panel installed by previous owner that was basically a plywood box covered with vinyl and a cluster of instraments/switches mounted into it. The origional dash was butchered with a jig saw and the new panel basically just set on top. A lot of the wiring was a speggetti mess of everything including using plain speaker wire just twisted together at connections. I pulled the whole thing and made a new instrament panel that would go back to where the origional panel would have been. All new fuse block, switches, panel fuses, gauges, wiring with marine wire & heat shrink connectors. Don't know if the pictures are good enough but any comments would be appreciated. The new panels will go back in this weekend. One question I have is what to do with the GPS and fish finder wires? The old way was to sneak them under where the panel sat on top of the dash. That won't work now. Have not been able to think of a "tidy" way to get them through the dash without just drilling a hole and sealing with caulk. I have seen pictures of other dash panels that you could not see the wires and looked very neat. Hope someone can give me a better solution on this.
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