Electronics:
Our boat came with very few working electronics. For our ICW trip from Florida to NC, we rigged up a new Garmin GPS receiver and connected to our Garmin 3210 from our fishing boat, and took our handheld VHF radio. This worked great for the trip from Florida to Atlantic Beach.
However, we wanted newer and permanent systems, and realized that most every existing piece on the boat would have to be scrapped. Many hours of research as to what brand, and what functions to buy. The old chart plotters, GPS, Lorans, radar, stereo system, and all but one VHF radio have been removed. A lot of wires and control units/displays have been removed that were non-operable. What may have been state of the art 20 years ago had become a nest of wires and control boxes taking up space.
A new Fusion marine stereo unit has been our project for the last two weekends. The old Sony system was not going to make it. The new Fusion stereo unit was installed in the main salon, with three zones. Zone 1 would be the Master stateroom, Zone 2 would be the main salon and forward stateroom, and Zone 3 would be the fly bridge speakers. Fusion requires an amp for the zone 3, so another piece to wire and find a spot for. A full function remote control was installed on the upper helm station, and a new XM radio antenna with receiver was added. The Fusion has the capacity to play XM sat radio, regular AM/FM, I-Pod/I-touch/MP-3-4, and one aux input such as a CD player. Very well designed system for a boat. Of course all these functions required pulling many more wires that we want to mention. Basically it took two weekends to route and pull all the wiring for this new system. Most all wiring had to go thru and across the engine room, up the valances in the salon, and into the upper helm station, and to the various antennae, speakers, and controls. This part is about finished, and we checked it out on Saturday, worked great!
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