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Old 07-27-2010, 06:33 PM
Jesse Delanoy Jesse Delanoy is offline
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I have a '77 Catalina 30, and was having some intermittent problems with the engine dying and not starting a couple of years back. It turned out that the long wire from the alternator up to the key switch in the cockpit was bad. Not the connections - the wire itself was breaking down. This boat was wired in the days before there was such a thing as marine grade wire, I guess. I spent a few bucks on a length of good wire at the boat store, disconnected the old wire in the harness Don spoke of, and ran the new wire along the harness from the engine compartment up to the key switch.

Haven't had any problems since then.

Jesse Delanoy
1977 Catalina 30
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