This is a great forum and I've find out learned a helluva lot, but I got a new question. <br /><br />Bought a '74 Chris Craft that had been retrofitted with diesels and througout it's life been treated.. um... not so nice. The wiring is a mess, I musta pulled out 100lbs of wires out of the bilge last weekend that weren't hooked to anything, including the old engine's wiring harnesses (someone got lazy). What's even nicer is that some wires were hot with a loose end in the bilge. <br /><br />Now, everything is still functional and slowly but surely I'm going to get it cleaned up. My question is, the boat now has 2 12v breaker boxes (I didn't know they made such a thing) that most of the accessories are wired into. Is this a good thing? Is it normal? Should I remove them and just wire everything up with fuses?