Engine troubles

 

Ah, the boating life; sunshine, fresh air, sundowners in the cockpit, and engines that won’t start. We had motored down to manatee pockets just outside of Stuart Fl and anchored today. After a bit I decided that I was too close to another boat and tried to start the motor so that we could re-anchor only nothing happened, the motor was DEAD. Nothing at all, no click, nothing.

After opening up the engine console I found a burned wire that went down to the engine compartment where I found a wiring harness connection that was burned up.

It’s a wonder that it didn’t start a fire. 3 hours later, I had the connection replaced and another wire run to the engine to replace the burned up one. If the engine hadn’t’ been hot from running it wouldn’t’ have been such a bad job. We still had to up anchor and move the boat so, I worked next to that hot beast and got the job finished just before dark, moved the anchor and got cleaned up. Ah, the boating life.