Power issue …help?

[Arminius]

So it's not a Coast Guard requirement and not the law. Self promoting hobbyists in the pockets of plaintiffs' admiralty ambulance chasers no doubt.
I suggest he cover his open bow with plywood before he goes out in the big ocean as I have earlier posted.

 

[Thornton69]

Thanks. Thornton, when you say connections on the main breaker, which connections are you referring to?

Sorry for late response. Have been out on the water.
Not familiar with your exact model but most of the I/O engines I have seen and all I have owned, have had a resettable circuit breaker on the engine. 50A or something. It supplies power to the helm and some of the accessories including the ecm and start circuits. I have not personally seen a bad battery connection magically come back to life and carry enough load to crank an engine after it couldn't even light up the instruments. But yes, I would agree to start there and only mentioned the breaker because it hadn't been. The connections on that breaker, I have seen, cut everything under way and light it all back up after sitting for a bit. It does not carry the load required to crank the engine but does supply power to the ignition switch, ecm and possibly even the blower. It doesn't on my boat, but who knows what has been done with your 18 year old one.

 

[Korkie]

So it's not a Coast Guard requirement and not the law. Self promoting hobbyists in the pockets of plaintiffs' admiralty ambulance chasers no doubt.
I suggest he cover his open bow with plywood before he goes out in the big ocean as I have earlier posted.

You do you. I leave up to the individual Captain to consider the dangers of bypassing any safety system which includes breakers, fuses, blowers, fluid level alarms, overheat alarms, and so on. Passengers on my vessel are my responsibility and take that responsibility very seriously. I have seen too many misfortunes happen because a Captain, or an inexperienced mechanic bypasses a system that was put there for the safety of the owners, passengers and equipment.
Like I said, You do You. Hopefully we don't see you in the news due to your irresponsible regard for the safety of others.

 

[Arminius]

Did I ever tell you about the time the firm selected me to try the Client's new Admiralty case
because I owned a boat, had read all the Obrien novels, and told the amusing anecdote about the hanged sodomoite's messmates reluctantly eating the victimized goat. Halfway through, the judge told us to settle it for X dollars. Plaintiff's counsel and I realized we must have bored the godlike US judge and we best do what he said as there was the Supremacy Clause. I was reserving my anecdote for closing and luckily never got to repeat it.