Well after my little tantrum about the boat taking so long to be serviced & wired, I have now had some very welcome news from the engineer, He now agrees that the old wiring was as bad as I had first told him it was, & so he has decided to do a full re-wire in place of the original idea of replacing a few fuse boxes, a connector here & there etc, & the good bit is that he will do the job at no extra cost. He gave me a quote originally & as he gave that quote & the work has taken so long due to having to wait for parts, the work is being left at the original quote.
I don`t think he could have been much fairer than that! & it has even softened the dissapointment of waiting so long.
I know now that when the job is done I will then end up with a perfectly good working engine & a great new wiring job along with all my new electronics. The engineer also was kind enough to offer to restore my expensive stainless steel prop as it was looking a bit sorry for itself after spending a long time left under water.
The next job after the boat comes back from the workshop is to restore the jellcoat, replace all the original decals (plus a few new ones) & start decking out the boat with the rod holders, boxes & storage racks, new fenders etc, & there`s a bit of splicing, which I have never done before but will have to learn, by spring the old girl should look like a totally new boat.
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