Excellent informative video....at last someone who shows the process without forgetting that not all of us are experts in all fields of boat building, without any crazy background music. Keep em coming mate 👍🏼

the practice of both a mechanical crimp and a solder connection is an excellent example to teach your viewers. I had over 40 years in the apparatus repair business--our local steel mill, the State Ferries, US Coast Guard and the US Navy require it --I learned at a young age. Simple yet strong and efficient----Mikey

Best DIY videos on KZfaq. Just got into boating and learned a lot. Cheers from Florida

Finally I found someone I can understand so I can do this myself thank you champ👍

Thank you for this video; new to boating; experienced some electrical issues; this tutorial sheds light on what I’m looking at under the hood.

Cheers from Washington State, Just bought a 1973 Sidewinder in rough shape and it needs all new electrical, these videos are LITERALLY life savers, learning more than I did in college classes, thanks man.

I have been looking at videos about basic boat wiring for awhile now and often they don't get it right and you come away even more confused. You have nailed it with this one, well done. Simple and everything explained in layman's terms.

Superb, professional video. Nice camera work. Very informative. Great job!

Like Peter Phan, Stu's videos are the best on the net. Every time I need to find something, know about or work out, this is where I come. Unfailingly instructive. I still have to watch the video on relays a few more times though.

Very helpful for me as I have no background with electrical work!

Thank You for for taking your time and sharing your wealth of knowledge.

Thanks Dangar Marine for making these tuturials! You are truly a boat guru and great teacher. Just watched the videos on replacing the steering system and I was able to accomplish that thanks to you. Time to get started on the electronics.

Thanks fpr sharing your knowledge and techniques. I have learned many things from your videos.

you are a wonderful perspon . Learning a lot sitting in Canada. Thank you

It is good to see someone wiring a boat with solder joints. You will almost never have a problem where the guys with crimpons alone will be chasing electrical problems in a couple of years and from then on. I wouldn't do it any other way. In a Marine application especially. Take care. Doug

I really admire your abilities and enjoy watching your videos here in deep East Texas! Thanks for sharing!

You're awesome. I'm watching you from North Africa, Libya.

Clear precise explanation, great video

Great tutorials, bit of a go to site for me as I am going from scratch to build an old Bell boy up.

That is an excellent video. I have watched numerous ones on wiring boats but this series of videos walks you through the actual practical implementation of wiring a small boat, step by step.

I’m almost at the wiring stage to my project and thank you for this DIY illustration . I will be using this format for my house battery but will have a separate battery for my outboard . Thanks for sharing . Cheers

Interesting video and I look-forward to watching the rest of the wiring installation.

Great video best one I’ve seen on boat electrical

Thanks for the video ! Very clear and direct explanation on rewiring safely and making connections

I like the idea of the fuse at the battery in case the wire gets cut or rubs the insulation away. I didn't do that to mine when I did the wiring but I think now I will go back and do it. great video.

Thanks Dangar! Your videos are great and I'm learning a lot! I've worked on a couple outboards among tractors, mowers, cars, etc. I starting to like working on outboards, especially old ones. So much style and quality back in the day. I'm currently working on a '65 33 hp evinrude ski twin. Doug

Very well explained and showed with the boat on hand. Just where I will be starting from. Thanks for sharing.

thanks man,you,ve been a great help on my project,keep on rocking dude,you are technical and good ,i recomand you to every one man.....

More please! I'm in the beginning stages on rewiring my 14ft flat bottom. Great video and great timing!.

I've got an 84 Bass Tracker TX that I doing some rewiring to, I like your method, Thanks, look forward to seeing more of your videos.

Thanks so much for the vids. Love watching them and learning as I go. You're very good at presenting information to the viewers too. Keep up the good work. Look forward to the next one. :)

Excellent Video. So many of this kind of video try to make it so much more complicated than it is. With a new restoration project starting soon I found this most helpful. Many thanks for sharing. ATB Mac

I really appreciate your videos. I have a sailboat, but the topics you cover apply to boats in general. Thanks!

GDay D Squadron Leader 🤙🏻😉🦘 Cheers 🍻 for your practical approach, Bonzå Encouragement on substrate systems & reputable design.😉🖖🏼 Bilge 🐀 Concurs 🙏🏼😄

Hello, amazing and practical explication. The first time i see some demystification on how to do and learn electrical project in a a boat. So, 1 thousand thanks. Best, paul

Thank you for this video. I was worried about doing my wiring on my boat. Just Nav lights and switches. You explained it and demonstrated it so well that I could understand. Just needed to be shown thanks again.

Have to say that this video was essential to my planning for doing electrical work on my boat this Spring. Had a depth finder and radio that I need to get powered up front and the suggestion of running a big power cable up to the front was very good. I ran the cable up front and put in a 6 circuit fused block to power those two devices. Worked really well and also preps me in the event that I either way to install another device (GPS) or add a solar charging unit up on the bow as I have those terminals on the fuse block to connect with instead of running cables all the way back to battery again.

Excellent instruction on the importance of method and planning. Thank you

So you are saying its not a magic,i love it,thanks

Great work Stuey.

Thank you very much for your video that is well explained and précise !

Nicely done. Thanks for the tips and ideas. 😎

thank you for all the great tips

Yep - I'll be following this series. I've got a great book (The 12 Volt Bible for Boats) but watching you actually doing it is great.. Thanks!

Great video, wiring made simple, good advice and very easy to follow. Makes me think about redoing my own wiring. Cheers.

Enjoying instructive videos. I am building a boat and will be doing wiring and other work. Thanks.

Hey man -- your wiring video inspired me to do something about the wire mess in my boat, so I did. Got a new fuse block, the type with a negative bus built onto it, and I mounted it in a smart place instead of the lazy, visible spot that some previous owner did. I ripped out all the old wires that fed my electrics and threw them away. Clean new proper-gauge wires from the battery to the block, inline fuses, put heat-shrink tubing on every connection. Re-connected my fishfinder, running lights and radio, added some cool-looking LED-lighted switches to my dash, and hid all the wires in flexible conduits out of sight. Finished the job yesterday and to my shock, everything works properly. Feeling pretty good about it. Appreciate the video.

Nice video dangar marine, Keep the good work mate, nice advices some of them i will use on my boat!

good video . thanks for making it simple to follow. I am looking forward to simplifying the power supply feeds on my tracker , and as you have done , reposition battery location. thanks again. Jack

My wiring knowledge just doubled thanks to this video, I always had issues with wiring on my boat. The inline fuses would get corroded and I'd loose power to the depth sounder/chartplotter. Your setup looks safe and reliable and best of all not to expensive. Your wiring and electronic videos are a huge help. I find it pretty hard to learn from wiring diagrams it just looks like a foreign language and I just glaze over.

Love your videos they help out heaps keep up the good work

Worth mentioning that the rule of thumb for any electrical work (ac/dc) is "never change gauge" and when you do "fuse it appropriately to the gauge you are changing to". Then you can't go wrong. Good video bud!

If you're going to use solder joints with heat shrink, i'd suggest cleaning the flux off the joint before heat shrinking, iso-alcohol, metho at a pinch is usually enough, the flux is usually corrosive and can eventually effect the joint continuity. Usually indicated by green "dust" in the joint later in it's life.

Excellent Video, and I learned a lot.

nice video.I just started wiring my boat great idea's thanks I will use your suggestions.

Your dog looks so very enthusiastic when boating. The fuses you use are to protect the size cable used. The idea is to avoid overheating of the conductor also to ensure there is not to much voltage drop so it will operate the protection device (fuse or circuit breaker) using a 10 amp fuse is good unless there is cable too small for 10 amp on accessories. Many circuits in automotive use smaller fuses. So glad you mentioned mechanical protection also sharp edges should be protected specialty where single insulated cable is exposed. 60 year old bush Sparky

This video is exactly what I needed. Thank you. I could never figure out the need for busbars lol.

great detailed and clear ..real teacher thanks so much ...

Great vedio step by step I'm going to do that to my boat

Thanks dude, informative and detailed . I hate electrical! Lol! Working on my 1979 34’ Silverton SF docked in North Carolina. “Bird nests!” Lol

Just what I needed to know cheers

Thanks for the vid! Learned a lot!!!!!!

Aha Good stuff ! I found it I knew you had have made a vid on this well done 👍

Great video for me getting ready to do it to my 14ft Aluminium Runabout (tinny)

Straight legend you are 🙌👌

Another great video Stu! I know you can get marine shrink fit but i have been putting a coat of silicone over the solder joint and the shrinking the shrink fit over it causing it to squeeze out the ends.... I have done this to a few bilge pumps in yachts where the join may sit in water at times and has been good for many years!

Great video!

Thank you

Great video! My old Starcraft has a pile of spaghetti wires that I intend to sort out and simplify. I like the idea of one fused pair of wires running up front. I just ordered the inline fuse holders and will attack the mess this week. Regards from Atlanta.

Are you the best man thanks so much

Your videos a super helpful

Thank you!

great video, thankyou so much....

I learned something thanks

The K.I.S.S. principle at work, looks great. Don't forget a bit of dielectric grease on your final assembly of the terminal blocks and wiring.

Thanx - excellent as usual !! ;-)

I was thinking of getting an old tinny to fix up but after all the electrical work I was thinking just getting a prebuilt kinda thing before I saw this video, I might get a tinny

nice setup. perhaps because i haven't finished my first cup of jo but i don't remember you covering conductor sizing. i've been working on the johnboat getting her ready for some night fishing.think of everything one might run and add up the amps to know what cable size to use and what fuse. i've also run a switch to control a relay as a master. then if i forget something at least it wont drain the battery. put all this in a pvc junction box i got at the home supply store.

the this vid was really helpful

Good day mate! Love the videos! I am learning so much and am applying everything I learn here to fixing up our outboard. Was wondering if you could make a video on replacing fuel lines under to engine cover not from the gas tank to the motor like every other video. Can't find any useful info anywhere and my lines are cracked and leaking under the hood

I’ve seen on some of the upmarket trawlers that they use an electrical mounting rail board that are made from plastic that look really neat but it might look out of place on the green machine but would look good on your trawler.

Hey Dangar A tip from an electrician. When making off a lug you "Crimp" or "Solder" do not do both .

thank u great

Thank you I am basically folloking you're setup

Hey Stu, great video's, they really help me a lot with reparing my boat! I have a question about the terminal blocks and the two pins post, where can I buy them? I can't find these similar products you are using, and I really like those. Please keep on making video's! They really help.

Thank you very much for your tutorial video it's so helpful! just let me know what type of battery did you use and how many amph

Better start than all your helpful videos. having accompanying Text on a website or social media pages can help folks in developing countries with internet connection limitation and accent understanding. Voice is generally low on many of your videos, but very helpful -- I download and plan to use a speaker to hear better.

watch those colors for 12 volt use red for positive and yellow for ground, thats the boating standard the use of black suggests higher voltage, either 240 or 120 volt the problem comes 'if' you have higher voltage introduced later, which would use black creates unnecessary confusion, with possible fatal consequences 'yes I agree this boat is unlikely to, but conventions exist for a reason, someone being dead is a pretty good reason .. still these are good topics to cover and i liked the video

Thanks a ton for making these videos, Stu! Love your work on Renko and remembered you had some content on smaller boats like this. I'm new to this whole deal and restoring an aluminum boat from the late 60's ("Aluminum goods Model 1432") that I have many fond memories of my Grandmother using, this is going to come in extremely handy once I get to the wiring stage. Odd question, but do you have any tips on what to do with a boat of this size sitting really low on the water? The one I'm working with is a rather shallow hull, the engine it last had (95 Evinrude 25HP) sat only a few inches above the water at the back. With the boat traffic on the lake these days it frequently takes on water easily, in recent years there's been a few bad thunderstorms that swamped it just with the rainfall. At first I was considering raising the transom and riveting aluminum bands to the sides of the boat, though now I'm thinking it'd probably be a lot easier and cheaper just to shove an automatic bilge pump or two of some kind in there, but I'm worried that might just kill the battery. I'm thinking the problem might also just be the engine was too heavy, I know this boat was rated for a max 25HP engine when it was built, and from the specs I found it looks like 25's have got heavier since then, so I guess it might just be a matter of downgrading to a lower horsepower when it comes time to selecting a new one. Any advice?

Neat job Stu....should be pretty corrosion free as planned

Excellent help. Thank you. Where would you in-line a master cut off? After battery and fuse?

Hey Stu, great videos. Thanks for teaching us all. Quick question. When installing a new device and its wiring, how do I know what size fuse to use? For example, I'm planing on putting a USB charging port for cell phones in our boat. How do I know what size fuse to install? Also, if installing a bus bar with fuses for future items, I assume there is a limit as to how much you can run off of one bus bar. How is that determined? Thanks

Awesome video! However I just want wanted to mention (and I’m not criticizing your video). It is not a good idea to solder and crimp wires. It’s best to do one or the other. Solder actually never becomes a true solid and over time melts / deforms enough to make your crimp fail. Especially critical in high amperage applications such as the mains to the battery, starter, alternator etc. Cheers!

Hello, thanks a lot for a so simple and clear explanation how to understand an elctrical circuit. How you got the 20A fuse value near the battery and the 10A near the buses? Thanks a lot, Paul

Can you tell me where I can order the power distributor on the right and the busses on the left? Can't seem to find the exact parts you use. I also see you commented about using a fuse block instead, which would you use and in what configuration? Thanks for the video, got me well on my way.

Hello Stu, great videos mate, just wondering where I can buy those 2 post terminal blocks, can’t find them anywhere ?

Hey Stu. Greetings from Boston MA. Your channel is my favorite thing to watch on any medium. You do a great job and I’ve learned a ton. Thank you! I’m having trouble finding robust ring connectors for 12 AWG wire. All I can find are the heat shrink ones and the rings are flimsy compared to the ones you crimped and soldered on. Are those rated for 12 AWG or did you use something rated for a thicker wire and just crimp it down?

Hey Dangar, have you published a video on sacrificial alloy hull anodes (for the hull, not just the motor)? Cheers mate!

good video, im wiring up my boat as we speak, well trying... how do u charge your battery? thanks

Great video Stu did you say what wire your using? I've always use silicone insulated tinned wire as the silicone insulation doesn't degrade and the tinned wire doesn't corroded the same, yes I know it's more expensive but just a thought