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OVER CURRENT PROTECTION: Each ungrounded current carrying conductor must be protected by a fuse or by a manually reset trip-free circuit breaker. This means that the hot wire, that is the positive wire in DC systems, must be protected. The negative wire...

Ignition Wire: Sec. 183.440 Secondary circuits of ignition systems. (a) Each conductor in a secondary circuit of an ignition system must meet SAE Standard J557. Since this regulation was published the standard has changed but the Coast Guard has not updated...

Low Voltage Wiring: Less than 50 volts Low voltage conductors must comply with SAE standard J1127 and J1128 and the insulation temperature rating of SAE J378b or UL standard 1426. Look at the labeling on the wire. Does it say UL Marine? Does it have an SAE or...

If you have training or experience in electricity and electrical circuits; Continue on: I am only going to very briefly cover the basics of the electrical standards found in the US Federal Regulations and ABYC Standards here. Contact ABYC and the Coast Guard to...

OVER CURRENT PROTECTION: Each ungrounded current carrying conductor must be protected by a fuse or by a manually reset trip-free circuit breaker. This means that the hot wire, that is the positive wire in DC systems, must be protected. The negative wire...

Doc, The possibilities are almost endless when it comes to batteries and even chargers on boats. Many folks have fooled around with the wiring on their boats but many may unfortunately may have actually failed to adequately protect the wires. Their is an enormous amount of power stored in a...

Since new we've always stored our other boat in a local fairgrounds and one of their requirements was removing the batteries from anything stored there. They state on their paperwork that batteries are the primary cause of potential fires and they wanted to eliminate that hazard. I always...

Our boat for being freshly redone actually worked out quite well for the most part. But their is one concern we had while rebuilding her that has raised her head and sort of demands some attention. Our Pontoon Houseboat came to us with the normally seen two pontoons and we added a third one...

Well we're done for this boating season. We pulled our boat Friday and pressure washed the most and worst of the growth and mess off of the toons as soon as it came out of the water. We had a good turnout of folks show up on Saturday and managed to remove all the docks and ramps in one day. This...

We'd really hoped we could use ours a bit longer yet. Due to the weather being bad on the last few weekends I guess we missed out. Oh well it's actually been a good summer all in all for the most part. We actually logged 110 hours on her this summer and had a lot of memorial times on both it and...

Well I guess you like the big waters of the Ohio. But for me I think I'll always prefer somewhat smaller waters with some room to travel. We had a awesome time but the trip down was probably as enjoyable as the event itself (well almost). I kind of like being able to see and enjoy the scenery on...

If your houseboat is a twin screw you and I both know you can turn them around in their own length, I just wish mine would handle so well. One fellow upriver has a 78 footer and there are others almost as big upriver at the Zanesville Yacht Club and they can get-r-down and back again. We were...

The fireworks were awesome to see. How they make shells that blow up and make smiley faces is beyond me. The first smiley I thought was an illusion but they shot a few more and I realized I wasn't seeing things. The dancing jellyfish were something to see also weren't they? I may actually have...

Actually Doc's boat is in both pictures. If you look almost smack in the middle of the top one, the light blue one with the life ring is Doc's. In the original picture a person could actually read the it's name. But when I reduced a copy to post it became illegible. I took a lot of photo's of...

Hay there Earnie, went to look at your site. The home page works but the only active link on the page is 404 not found. You'd probably better look at it.

I made it there Doc and if you were to have looked directly behind your boat you'd have seen us on the confluence sandbar where the Ohio and Muskingum River meet. We just got home about an hour ago ourselfs from the trip. I was a little to intimated by all the signs of $$$$$$ where you'd slipped...

Well it's upon us now. We've decided to run the river down to Marietta now. The weather sounds as if it's going to be decent for the festival, and the truth is we really do want to enjoy the scenery along the river on the way down and back up again. We've asked a lot of people a lot of questions...

These are primarily scenery photo's I've taken the last few weeks while boating. I'm no photographer by any means actually it's my first digital camera and I'm still learning how to best use it. But anyway some of the photo's came out well enough that I put them together in a photo album in...

Our boat club holds this event every year and it's one of our biggest fundraisers and events. If anyone's interested in doing something different or maybe exploring and seeing some scenery of waters you might not have boated in before it's a good opportunity to do it. It's being held July 18th...

Thanks for the reply Doc and I know there has to be some good ramps around that area somewhere. Even St.Marys area would not be out of the question for the Ohio River is a nice enough float / cruse to also enjoy the views. In talking to others up our way they express the bust butt run on Monday...