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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoatDawg4120" data-source="post: 363411" data-attributes="member: 9832">Awesome job on the boat.   Thought I would add my .02 worth.   I am currently working on a 86 Sea Nymph FM161 16' aluminum and will be redoing all the wiring.   Ive done a few fiberglass and aluminum rebuilds in the past 3 or 4 years and one thing that I found that greatly helped with the wring is.....1.   PVC piping.   Anywhere you have long runs front to back, center to back, center to front etc.  see if there is a spot to hang a piece of pvc out of view.   this makes it extremely easy to keep your wires protected and neatly tucked away.  This also makes it a lot easier to run more wiring in the future if you dont already leave a few extra pairs in the pipe. 2.  If you can get the measurement of how much wire you will need to run to each electronic device you are putting in.  Add a few feet for those just incase you need more and also for wire repair in the future.  Cut your length and have a friend hold one end of your positive and negative pair and place the other end in a drill and slowly twist the pairs together then tape here and there and number the ends of each pair accordingly and put a spare pair or two in for additions later but marking them will let you know that #1 on one end corresponds to #1 on the other end of the run.   Ive done this on 7 or 8 boat rebuilds in the past few years 2 of them being my own and it GREATLY reduced the headaches involved with securing and tracing the wiring down later.   Picked up these tricks when I used to install custom auto audio and lighting.</blockquote>

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