Vern,
No, that's not it. The boat end of the shore power cable has ring terminals crimped and soldered on. These terminals are bolted to matching terminals (on the cable that goes to the distribution breaker panel) in a protected and dry place well inside the boat. The shore power cord, about 50 feet of three-conductor #6 SO cord, then exits the boat via a 2" deck plate on the side of the cabin. The shore end of my shore power cable has a range type male plug on it. One can put a range plug there as I did [which is not very waterproof] or splice a range pigtail [which has a molded plug which is more waterproof] to the SO cord. This plug mated with the range style female receptacle in the power pedestal that I had at the first two marinas I stayed at (for several years each). I did make up adapters to use with other style female dock receptacles. These adapters consisted of about 18" of the same cable as the shore power cable with a stove type receptacle at one end for my shore power cable to plug in to, and whatever male plug is required to mate with the dock power receptacle at the other end. Norm S/V Bandersnatch > So let me make sure I understand this. You use the range type receptacle and plug to replace the twist lock on the boat. How do you get to the twist lock on the dock? I would much prefer to make my own cable if I can get everything to match up. > _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
