Boat Electrics DC / AC

I´ve always enjoyed tinkering with electrics and even started a GCSE in electronics when I was 14. However my YM Offshore took priority and then I left home and went sailing at 16, so I never finished it!
Living on my own boat for 6 years though gave me a great opportunity to make lots of mistakes and I have never stopped learning, studying and improving boat systems.

Having a basic understanding of boat electrics has stood me in good stead as nearly every boat I have worked on, no make that EVERY boat, has had some kind of electrical issue to be resolved!

Everything from completely rewiring a 95ft Gaff Schooner and a 90ft Classic motor yacht to troubleshooting an integrated glass bridge on a brand new 57mtr Feadship, or tracing network cables on Felicita West a 64 mtr Perini Navi.

I love keeping up with technology and finding the neatest way to install the most reliable systems possible.

New Communication and Navigation equipment for the 70ft schooner Living Water
Tidy wiring delights me
Planning and records are essential, this was for the installation on Elizabeth G
24v 5KW 120Amp Victron Quatrro installation
This was a catamaran that had been half finished in the shipyard so the job was to trace and fix the wiring and tidy everything up
the satisfying stage
behind the scenes just as important
Outback Charger / Inverters on a 110ft motor yacht.
en-route to Turkey we had to build an emergency steering system when the main steering circuit board died.
This was the bridge on a Feadship that I helped deliver across the Atlantic, we had some issues to fix with the glass bridge, before we could leave France
Tidying up a messy Creston installation
Reconfiguring the GUI on the Boning control and monitoring system so that it actually made sense.
Rob Roy - I did so much work on this bridge, both with the Furuno agent and ourselves, lots of great equipment but it all needed commissioning and configuring
after redoing all the electrics on this 95ft gaff schooner this was the final piece of the jigsaw fitting a new Northern Lights genset
This bridge was dated with a lot of equipment not working correctly
so I took it apart
and after redesigning the layout so the instruments were in a logical place, I had new panels made and then rewired it with a new NMEA network