Hi guys,
I am in the midst of installing a
B&G Vulcan chart plotter into my Parker Dawson 26
trailer sailer. I am switching to the
B&G from a
Raymarine unit since I wanted to add useful
wind data and there was no way to do that on the
Raymarine without adding additional gauges which I am trying to avoid.
Anyhow, new plotter is installed and I am getting ready to run wire up to the
mast head. Obviously being as I do
trailer a
single wire slithered up to the top is a non starter. My
current mast wiring runs via the
compression post, down under the liner and back to the panel. I am not super excited about sending the
NMEA cable along this
route since that means a long run through places where it is difficult to really secure well plus it ends up on the wrong side of the
boat which means another long run around behind the
cockpit (center
cockpit boat) through the
engine bay and back up the other side via a lot of very annoying places to crawl into.
Compared to that, my
VHF wire runs through the
cabin top using one of these:
which results in the cable having a very short run over to where the
electronics are, well secured and tidy.
Does anyone know of a similar type doo dad for
NMEA 2000? Maretron sort of makes one but it is quite short and my
cabin top is quite thick.
I have toyed with the idea of poking a hole in the
compression post and snaking it back out of there but a proper pass through would be much cleaner looking.