Hello all,
I just bought my first boat! Its a 1984 Bayliner Capri Bowrider that's about 18.5 ft in length with the Volvo AQ125A stern drive setup in it. The motor, steering, trim, everything works great. The interior is decent. Somebody put new vinyl in it not too long ago and it's cleaned up nicely. The deck has a few soft spots and the carpet is stained up, but it's not bad and I'm willing to do the work to repair the deck.
My question today is about the instrument panel. This one is badly faded so I can't read what the switches are supposed to do, and right now they don't do anything. There are two on-off switches and one two-pole switch that I assume is off in the center position. The bilge pump is wired directly to the battery. The lights don't work. There's an engine room exhaust fan but it also doesn't currently work. I found the fuse panel under the "dash" but all the fuses test fine. I'm pretty handy with electrical stuff so I can fix it but I'd like to know what the switches were supposed to do originally before I just dive in and rewire the boat.
If somebody could provide me with a picture of the instrument panel or at least descriptions of what each switch originally did, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
-Mark
I just bought my first boat! Its a 1984 Bayliner Capri Bowrider that's about 18.5 ft in length with the Volvo AQ125A stern drive setup in it. The motor, steering, trim, everything works great. The interior is decent. Somebody put new vinyl in it not too long ago and it's cleaned up nicely. The deck has a few soft spots and the carpet is stained up, but it's not bad and I'm willing to do the work to repair the deck.
My question today is about the instrument panel. This one is badly faded so I can't read what the switches are supposed to do, and right now they don't do anything. There are two on-off switches and one two-pole switch that I assume is off in the center position. The bilge pump is wired directly to the battery. The lights don't work. There's an engine room exhaust fan but it also doesn't currently work. I found the fuse panel under the "dash" but all the fuses test fine. I'm pretty handy with electrical stuff so I can fix it but I'd like to know what the switches were supposed to do originally before I just dive in and rewire the boat.
If somebody could provide me with a picture of the instrument panel or at least descriptions of what each switch originally did, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
-Mark
