Hi Steve, The cabin light wiring is buried in the cabin overhead, and therefore nearly impossible to "replace". While convienent, I would not consider the cabin lights to be critical to the safety of the boat or crew. In other words, a failure there would not be a life or death situation. On the other hand, the bilge pump, Navigation lights, GPS, and VHF radio, are far more important.
IMHO I would also upgrade the Nav lights... While "legal" the hull mounted bow lights can become ineffective when the boat is healed. Bob Stockley Sundance #2436 --- In [email protected], "steveo900rr" <stevejhu...@...> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Been reading posts, archive, websites, books, and now is the time to > ask. > > I have recently purchased a 1978 C27 A4. After a 20+ year break from > sailing I have jumped back in and am loving just being by the big blue > again. I have sent these questions to Catalina with no response but I > think this group will have something to say if only a welcome. > > The ever hated THRU-HULLS > > I plan to replace all ball valves and 1 gate valve(sink) with Marelon > ball valves. When trying to close the raw water metal ball valve the > handle came off in my hand!! If I can get the thoroughly corroded > valves off the pipe nipples without breaking them off do they really > need to be replaced with true thru-hulls? I know the idea of stowed > items rolling around and shearing off an unflanged non through bolted > thru-hull is possible, I'm sure I can avoid this. Are there other > reasons to replace? Corrosion? I have read that the pipe nipples are > NPT threads, are the Marelon ball valves the same? > > Electrical > > It looks like the budget wiring on the Catalina is not Boat Cable or > tinned or high flex, at least it's not solid house wire:) I have read > every where that all that wiring needs to be replaced with boat cable. > When checking out the wiring on the panel I found a lot of the corrosion > on the back of the vintage wood grain panel and some less than ideal > connections made throughout the years. When cutting back the wiring I > did not find the shiny core like on the short expensive pieces of boat > cable I have purchased. When I put a meter across the circuit for 1 of > the cabin lights it showed no more resistance that a short piece of > larger boat cable. I don't see any reason therefore to replace the > wiring. Any thoughts there? > > Battery placement. They are set up now in the deep port cockpit locker. > Was this the standard location? Seems like a tough place to service > them. They were unsecured down there which I'm fixing but am open to > other location ideas. > > The po didn't seem to know too much about these problems but a ppo > seemed to do some of the suggested upgrades. The spreader bases look to > be the ss ones. The chain plate upgrade was done. I can't tell if the > keel root was done. Are there any tell tail signs? > > > That's probably a long enough intro, my fingers are tired. If you made > it this far, thank you!! I look forward to chatting with y'all in the > future. > > > Steve Huber > Judy K II > 1978 C27 #3810 >
