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TakeFive
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Initially Posted - 05/16/2010 :  11:09:38  Show Profile
I would like to install an automatic bilge pump in my C250. I would like to run the wires up to the 12v control panel through the conduit, but can't see how to get behind the galley up to the conduit entrance. It looks like the wires follow a tricky path around the built-in cubbies for plates, cups, etc.

How have the rest of you run this wiring? Did you manage to get to the panel, or did you go directly back to the battery? If the latter, how did you route your wires?
Rick S., Swarthmore, PA
PO of Take Five, 1998 Catalina 250WK #348 (relocated to Baltimore's Inner Harbor)
New owner of 2001 Catalina 34MkII #1535 Breakin' Away (at Rock Hall Landing Marina)
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Response Posted - 05/16/2010 :  13:43:52  Show Profile  Visit Admin's Homepage
Rick, not sure how the 2005 differs from the 1998.

On JD (2005) I drilled a hole in the top aft outboard corner of the cup/plate/dish holder.
The I ran the cable from the control panel, outboard of the cabin top liner, then inboard of the hull liner, through some heatshrink and then into the hole.
Then the cable runs down into the V groove area under the cooler space. Then I reached for them through the bilge cutout.

So the only place you can see the electrical cable (wrapped in heatshrink) is where it exits the Cabin liner and enters into the galley top hole.

Some boats have a tube in that area from pics I've seen online.

It was fun

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Response Posted - 05/16/2010 :  16:29:17  Show Profile
Thanks for the suggestion. I'm down in the boat right now. I already have a couple pairs of wires running along similar routes. One is for a Shurflo faucet pump in the galley. It runs to the pump under the cabinet floor, about 2' from where I want to put the bilge pump. I'm darn tempted to tap that wire into the master (bypassing the panel switches) with an added fuse, of course, then tap my pump into those wires in the cabinet (higher than the bilge water could reach). That would make this super clean, and I wouldn't need to turn on the stereo every time I wanted some water. But I need to draw some pictures to verify that rising bilge water would not short out the whole thing.
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