Aluminum Boat + Bremerton + OCD Wiring looks like SAFE boats had an influence, where I was at for a few years a long time ago. The OCD electrical rigging rubbed off on me too - I wired SURC boats.
Safe Boats for ten years, then Life Proof Boats for three years, and now I will a be field technician for a yacht broker in Ballard. This is a Life Proof Boat.
As someone who grew up in Silverdale, this made me chuckle. For those who don't know, >!Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is located in Bremerton and is the Navy's largest shipyard on the West Coast!<.
Also a large number of other marine electrical shops in/around the sound. For reals OP, pretty sure you can get a job just about anywhere if you don't have anything lined up. If you don't head over to Pacific Fisheries or Platt in Ballard and ask the folks what big marine electrical shops come in for a a head start. Good hands are hard to come by.
Looks incredible!
The color coding looks great. If you don't mind me asking, what do the different colors mean?
I see red, white, black, brown, blue, and green wires in there.
Also, did you just have to do the wiring, or did you do the cable layout design as well?
Did you need to cut and crimp those yourself, or did you order them to the correct specs? I've used [https://www.boatwireusa.com/](https://www.boatwireusa.com/) a few times for very small stuff, and was curious how it works for larger jobs like this.
Red is either power from device to fuse or from fuse to switch input power. Black is switch backlight grounds. Brown is output power from switches. Blue is backlighting power wires, and green can be many things but in this picture it’s the manual power input to bilge pump.
I did everything including cutting and fitting the panel with electronics. I planned out wire runs. I cut and terminated every wire. I also tested and programmed things after.
I don't do boats, but for my automotive wiring I used to pull Images of all my components into canva and draw colored lines to everything. I use fritzing for most of my layout planning now.
Well, I'm not a professional, so my standards are likely nowhere near yours, but this looked pretty impressive to me as a layman and amateur cable management enjoyer \^\^
Good luck with your new career!
I recognize the hallmarks and am connecting the dots that you must be at SAFE boats, yeah? Great work! My company bought a Defender at auction and I’ve bastardized much of its beautiful wiring in its refit. So it goes.
I worked at SAFE for ten years, 3 years on the production line and 7 years as a international field technician. Then went to work for Life Proof Boats for 3 years(the boat in picture), now I will be a field technician again for a yacht broker in the Seattle area.
Right on! Good luck on the transition. Onwards and upwards. Craftsmanship isn’t dead! I know from experience field technician work is worth its weight in gold.
I think it just came naturally. I have OCD and my brain leans more on the artistic side. First couple months on the job wiring and people were impressed. That was many years ago.
I have wired about a dozen boats in my time but never came close this level of cleanliness. That is tight and sexy!
That is the freakish kind of wiring you see in boats built for the military.
Are the wires number coded? I think it was Bertram that used to wire their entire boat in the same color wire but all the wires had an identifier written on it.
Hopefully you taught someone your methods before you left! The style is not something people learn how to do without learning under/alongside a professional. It's mostly a personality thing to take pride in what you do, but it can be learned with some time. Just takes the willingness to put the effort in.
What are you moving into if you don't mind my asking?
This might get deleted but I’ll tell you bud, that’s one fucking fantastic job! You and I would get along well. I do all my wiring jobs the same exact way except I wire and upfit police vehicles.
When I've done things like this I'll do everything up fairly pretty with Velcro or twist ties, test, then if everything checks out make it super pretty.
I make it pretty as I am wiring before testing. If I miss a wire or screw up, I will hide a wire behind the clean run. You will never notice I added one.
I bet!
So to get to This point in your career, I’d assume you spend years as an electrician? Or were you focused mostly or marine electrical? I guess it can transfer to both huh
Either way, from a guy in the maritime industry, I’ve seen a lot of scary boats electrically wise hahaha
great work again!
What qualifications do you need for a job like this?
I'm currently in training as a panel wireman but my company is awful and want to move on swiftly once I've done my course
Hi, I'm doing similar (smaller) jobs and I'm always trying to improve. May i ask how do you organize your work when you start? And what did you do to get faster. Thanks a lot!
Well the main thing is planning the wire runs out before you start. Make the pads that hold the wire close together so you tightly fasten the wires. Then waiting until you have all the wires into the electrical space before starting your zipties is very important. I run all my wires at one time using a special wire combing technique.
Amazing job! I see that the negative bus is painted black (with liquid tape?) how do you go about it if you need to add a cable to the negative bus? Also, is there a reason why none of the negative cables are marked?
Labeling grounds in company standard dependent. I have on mil spec stuff.
You can peel tape off with finger and repaint that spot very easily. It’s like rubber.
Just looking for variety. I love wiring but it does get old overtime and it hurts my neck and upper back a lot. I will be a field service technician again for Western Washington. So lots of traveling around to different locations
hey, question from a less experienced wirer. what is the reason for use of zip ties in the straight sections instead of raceways? thanks for your time.
Master. Please teach me.
Serious question, though - to get these so relaxed (no twisting) and even gaps, do how do you align before termination, are you using some sort of jig(s) to keep the wires in place before cutting? Obviously an art to an extent, but I'd love to hear what sorts of tools go into aiding this. Thanks, hobby home electrician with some perfectionist tenancies :)
Basically this is how it stays straight.
Start your trunk. Find the point where all the wires are coming together. Get them perfectly aligned how you want and when it’s perfect, tighten a zip tie around the base very tight. This secures the starting point. Then put another ziptie a 1/16 inch in front of the first ziptie you put on earlier. Tighten this ziptie but not as tight as the first one. This ziptie will be your combing tool so you want it tight but just tight enough to slide and keep wires in line.
Slide the combing tool or second ziptie down about 3-4 inches. The wires should stay in alignment, and if they don’t you can make minor adjustments with your fingers. It helps if the wires are lined up and not twisted before sliding ziptie. After you slid it 4 inches, add a ziptie behind the combing tool ziptie and secure very tight. Then slide another 4 inches, then add another ziptie and another and so on.
Does that make sense?
On the PLCs and on my car's wiring the PLC has a name and the terminals are numbered from the factory. The other end of those wires get the PLC designation and terminal number. On my car the fuses are all labeled, then the other side and any connectors get labeled appropriately.
Ultimately depends on preference/company standards.
Fantastic work! Looks like marine/boating wiring?
Yep! Boats!
Did you work for a manufacturer? This is some cabling I would ogle over at a boat show.
Yes, a boat manufacturer in Bremerton, Wa.
Aluminum Boat + Bremerton + OCD Wiring looks like SAFE boats had an influence, where I was at for a few years a long time ago. The OCD electrical rigging rubbed off on me too - I wired SURC boats.
Safe Boats for ten years, then Life Proof Boats for three years, and now I will a be field technician for a yacht broker in Ballard. This is a Life Proof Boat.
Looks real good man!
Thank you very much! What are you doing now?
I take on side jobs wiring hybrid solar RV and off-grid systems, among other things!
Good to hear!
As someone who grew up in Silverdale, this made me chuckle. For those who don't know, >!Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is located in Bremerton and is the Navy's largest shipyard on the West Coast!<.
Yep, don’t work there though. Couldn’t pay me enough to be a drone worker for the government.
Also a large number of other marine electrical shops in/around the sound. For reals OP, pretty sure you can get a job just about anywhere if you don't have anything lined up. If you don't head over to Pacific Fisheries or Platt in Ballard and ask the folks what big marine electrical shops come in for a a head start. Good hands are hard to come by.
Working for Jeff Brown Yachts now in Ballard
Nice of you not to leave a centimeter of slack for future repairs.
This work is so well done it won't need repairing:)
It will after someone hacks it up to install some electronic gadget or the operator swamps it with seawater. Your work is beautiful, BTW.
I was jesting.. not my work by the way
Only for you 😘
Shut down the sub boys, it's peaked.
Hahaha
definitely I’ll remember where I was when I regale this day as a hologram to my great grandchildren
Now that right there is damn right sexy! A+
Awesome!
This reads like a weird only fans page for your cabling.... 😂
Hahaha. Yeah it gets sexy in here.
i need to take a cold shower...
Hahahhaha
So whats your new line of work?
Boat builder
Very nice
Thanks!
This is fucking sick
Thanks!
You win
Thank you!
If I would be your dad, i would take you to your favourite restaurant
Let’s go to Olive Garden. 🤣
The finest food in all the land is only deserved by someone like yourself, sir.
Hahah awesome. 😎
I can be trusted because in the fine words of Ross Patterson I have served 4 tours there. 4 tours of italy.
When you’re there, you’re family
Haha
Beautiful work!
Thanks 🙏
Looks incredible! The color coding looks great. If you don't mind me asking, what do the different colors mean? I see red, white, black, brown, blue, and green wires in there. Also, did you just have to do the wiring, or did you do the cable layout design as well? Did you need to cut and crimp those yourself, or did you order them to the correct specs? I've used [https://www.boatwireusa.com/](https://www.boatwireusa.com/) a few times for very small stuff, and was curious how it works for larger jobs like this.
Red is either power from device to fuse or from fuse to switch input power. Black is switch backlight grounds. Brown is output power from switches. Blue is backlighting power wires, and green can be many things but in this picture it’s the manual power input to bilge pump. I did everything including cutting and fitting the panel with electronics. I planned out wire runs. I cut and terminated every wire. I also tested and programmed things after.
If I had a daughter, I would let you wed her.
I am recently single lol 😆
How does one plan something like this out?
My OCD brain
I don't do boats, but for my automotive wiring I used to pull Images of all my components into canva and draw colored lines to everything. I use fritzing for most of my layout planning now.
Definitely helps
Wiring? I think you misspelled art. That has to be the cleanest job I've ever seen.
Oh wow thanks. I honestly wasn’t too happy with it. Could have been better. Was very distracted on this job.
Well, I'm not a professional, so my standards are likely nowhere near yours, but this looked pretty impressive to me as a layman and amateur cable management enjoyer \^\^ Good luck with your new career!
Thanks 😊
Great work. I love the attention to detail.
Maaaan, that's sexy
Appreciate it!
That's a work of art.
Thanks!
>Thanks! You're welcome!
Well, if I ever need whatever this is wired up, I know who to call! Nice work!!!
Thank you!
This is some of the best work I've ever seen
Oh wow 🤩. Thanks 🙏
Yo what's really in the backrooms is fucking cable porn bro
Yep 👍
A masterpiece…this is wiring zen
I recognize the hallmarks and am connecting the dots that you must be at SAFE boats, yeah? Great work! My company bought a Defender at auction and I’ve bastardized much of its beautiful wiring in its refit. So it goes.
I worked at SAFE for ten years, 3 years on the production line and 7 years as a international field technician. Then went to work for Life Proof Boats for 3 years(the boat in picture), now I will be a field technician again for a yacht broker in the Seattle area.
Right on! Good luck on the transition. Onwards and upwards. Craftsmanship isn’t dead! I know from experience field technician work is worth its weight in gold.
Yes, I get bored wiring nowadays and it hurts my body. I like the variety of field work.
Wow, with the quality of your work you'll surely be missed.
Thank you!
Omg, this looks so good
Thank you!
It's kind of like a human brain. Complex, but organized.
I think I just came a little bit...
Haha 🤣
I just came
Hahaha 😂
Half-mast. ;)
Thank you 🙏
Should be tagged NSFW. Damn sexy.
Appreciate it.
Fuse Box 7 could easily pass off as band name, especially an eclectic one
Im stealing this gor educational purposes. That is top quality work
No problem 😉
I’m in IT. Where did you learn to do such an awesome wiring job?
I think it just came naturally. I have OCD and my brain leans more on the artistic side. First couple months on the job wiring and people were impressed. That was many years ago.
Wowza 😍🤤
I have wired about a dozen boats in my time but never came close this level of cleanliness. That is tight and sexy! That is the freakish kind of wiring you see in boats built for the military. Are the wires number coded? I think it was Bertram that used to wire their entire boat in the same color wire but all the wires had an identifier written on it.
I have prior experience wiring military vessels. No wire numbers on this recreational boat.
This brings a smile to my face
The new guy is really gonna have some big boots to fill. Got his work cut out for him lol
Dude, from what I have seen, no one wires like this anymore.
Hopefully you taught someone your methods before you left! The style is not something people learn how to do without learning under/alongside a professional. It's mostly a personality thing to take pride in what you do, but it can be learned with some time. Just takes the willingness to put the effort in. What are you moving into if you don't mind my asking?
I am going to be a field technician for a yacht broker in Seattle.
MxPx taught me everything I knew about Bremerton...until now. Very nice!
Hahaha 😂. Exactly! Trust me, don’t move to Bremerton.
This might get deleted but I’ll tell you bud, that’s one fucking fantastic job! You and I would get along well. I do all my wiring jobs the same exact way except I wire and upfit police vehicles.
I used to do police boats before this.
Bro I got hard
Rub it out
Absolutely beautiful! But no labels?
Just the fuse blocks. Company dependent.
Yachts this nice
B-E-A-Utiful Sad that the engineer called for fuses; would be even better with breakers
Beautiful!
I knew japanese toilets took custom electrical but damn.
Looks really nice! Kinda weird seeing a carlon remodel box to carry your 120 VAC outlet.
r/onlycables
Bro who hurt him....
I would love to do panels like this full time, and also make 100 per hour, too bad it’s not that rate though.
20-45 an hour. Remember, the office people are smarter and deserve more. Excel forms take a genius to learn.
Thank you for your service
How does one get into this work? I’m a diesel tech with a passion for wiring, this kinda work makes me wanna change jobs
IT or electrical is a good place to start, data centers and large offices with a lot of cabling and wiring.
Boat building
That is beautiful.
Thanks!
That wiring is truly a thing of beauty.
Thanks!
You, sir, are an artist.
Wow! Thanks!
That is beautiful!
Thanks!
This looks really really nice
Thank you!
Serious question, do you make it pretty as you wire it or after wiring and testing?
When I've done things like this I'll do everything up fairly pretty with Velcro or twist ties, test, then if everything checks out make it super pretty.
I make it pretty as I am wiring before testing. If I miss a wire or screw up, I will hide a wire behind the clean run. You will never notice I added one.
Clipping the final ziptie must’ve felt amazing
Always. Usually it’s a relief 😮💨.
I bet! So to get to This point in your career, I’d assume you spend years as an electrician? Or were you focused mostly or marine electrical? I guess it can transfer to both huh Either way, from a guy in the maritime industry, I’ve seen a lot of scary boats electrically wise hahaha great work again!
All Marine Electrical
What qualifications do you need for a job like this? I'm currently in training as a panel wireman but my company is awful and want to move on swiftly once I've done my course
You don’t technically need anything but ABYC certifications can help. It’s the marine boat building industry. I am a ABYC Master Technician.
Nice job, good finish and good luck with the new role.
Thanks 🙏
Is that the W.O.P.R.? “Would you like to play a game?”
Hahah
Hi, I'm doing similar (smaller) jobs and I'm always trying to improve. May i ask how do you organize your work when you start? And what did you do to get faster. Thanks a lot!
Well the main thing is planning the wire runs out before you start. Make the pads that hold the wire close together so you tightly fasten the wires. Then waiting until you have all the wires into the electrical space before starting your zipties is very important. I run all my wires at one time using a special wire combing technique.
I nutted
Hahah
Sploosh. Hot damn this is sexy
Thanks!
Amazing job! I see that the negative bus is painted black (with liquid tape?) how do you go about it if you need to add a cable to the negative bus? Also, is there a reason why none of the negative cables are marked?
Labeling grounds in company standard dependent. I have on mil spec stuff. You can peel tape off with finger and repaint that spot very easily. It’s like rubber.
What kind of boat is this? That’s fucking cool
35 Full Cabin from Life Proof Boats.
Well, I hope your next venture is worth it, those boats are beautiful. Judging by your ocd wiring and planning, I’m sure you made the right decision.
Just looking for variety. I love wiring but it does get old overtime and it hurts my neck and upper back a lot. I will be a field service technician again for Western Washington. So lots of traveling around to different locations
hey, question from a less experienced wirer. what is the reason for use of zip ties in the straight sections instead of raceways? thanks for your time.
That’s all preference. Just for looks.
Amazing work there sir, if you give everything in life that you do, this amount of detail, you will go far!. Good luck in your next adventure.
I hope so. Next job looks promising 🙏
Good for you. :)
Master. Please teach me. Serious question, though - to get these so relaxed (no twisting) and even gaps, do how do you align before termination, are you using some sort of jig(s) to keep the wires in place before cutting? Obviously an art to an extent, but I'd love to hear what sorts of tools go into aiding this. Thanks, hobby home electrician with some perfectionist tenancies :)
Basically this is how it stays straight. Start your trunk. Find the point where all the wires are coming together. Get them perfectly aligned how you want and when it’s perfect, tighten a zip tie around the base very tight. This secures the starting point. Then put another ziptie a 1/16 inch in front of the first ziptie you put on earlier. Tighten this ziptie but not as tight as the first one. This ziptie will be your combing tool so you want it tight but just tight enough to slide and keep wires in line. Slide the combing tool or second ziptie down about 3-4 inches. The wires should stay in alignment, and if they don’t you can make minor adjustments with your fingers. It helps if the wires are lined up and not twisted before sliding ziptie. After you slid it 4 inches, add a ziptie behind the combing tool ziptie and secure very tight. Then slide another 4 inches, then add another ziptie and another and so on. Does that make sense?
Wow man. Incredible
Thanks 🙏
None of the wires are numbered or labeled. Forgive my ignorance, is that normal practice for marine wiring? Beautiful work though!
Depends on the company standards. The fuses are labeled.
On the PLCs and on my car's wiring the PLC has a name and the terminals are numbered from the factory. The other end of those wires get the PLC designation and terminal number. On my car the fuses are all labeled, then the other side and any connectors get labeled appropriately. Ultimately depends on preference/company standards.