The current status of the electrical system is that we’ve ended up with dead ended wires under the main panel by the navigation station and dead ended wires in the aft storage lockers.  The cableway runs behind the upper cabinets in the galley but it’s held together in an organized bundle with zip ties.  Jason and I had the realization that it is actually routed between the “beauty panel” in the galley and the actual fiberglass hull and the only way to reach it is to pull the cabinets out… So… that happened.

For reference… this is what the galley looked like before we started this adventure:

You can see some of the cables falling down on top of the upper cabinets.  Those were the easy ones! We had to use a crowbar to the the cabinets out and even had to cut one section.  Looks like we’re going to be doing an unintentional galley renovation eventually! Why do projects always snowball like this?! (not surprised… at all…)

We really need to start finishing projects so we can put some of this back together! BUT…. I started a new project! 😉 I found that I keep re-tracing the same wires, so I started taking yellow electrical tape (no real reason, I just found it in the bucket) and labeling every wire that I could find. This wasn’t limited to wiring though… Remember when I said that I chase the rabbit hole around the boat? I ended up labeling the water system instead!

Yesterday was a busy day! We’re starting to get a handle on what wires go where, how the boat is laid out, and a lot of things are labeled now.  I guess we just have to tear the boat apart before we put it back together again!