Re: 1985 Sea ray Seville
lol, i just realized what r we talking about, its a coil pack, right?
A coil is still needed to send power to the spark plugs. In olden times, the points were a mechanical device that opened and closed to send power to each plug. They wear and corrode and need to be replaced. Back in the day we tuned our cars up annually, or every 10K miles. Today, tune-ups are every 100k.
Points on a car were a pita....they needed maintenance, including adjustment. In a boat its even worse. The boat sits all week long, and all winter long, thus the points last even shorter.
Electronic ignition is a sealed solid state unit. Set it once and its done. A 15 minute job and it uses the existing distributor and coil.
I used to tune the boat every other year. Three years and I got sputtering and had to dress the points or replace them. Nine years on my Peertronics and haven't touched or adjusted anything yet. Still requires periodic spark plug changes though.
As far as the rottenwires - I'm not sure from your pics, but I think they are to the trim cylinders. They may work now, but they won't for long. Replace them - shrink wrap the portion that goes thru the transom.