Cal 33 what are these wires?

Maybe 6 gauge wires. Two red. Two black. Coiled in the battery area. They run along the starboard side past head and come out where the thru hulls for head are located. Must be for some potential add on equipment I guess. Anyone know? Thanks, Leslie Puffin 1986 Cal 33-2

The OEM battery charger in my 86 is capable of charging three batteries but the boat only had two. Maybe the factory laid in wires for the third, or a PO did, if you’re not the original owner. Look under the starboard vee berth to see if the other end is at the charger. Al Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 10:24 AM To: ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cal 33 what are these wires? Maybe 6 gauge wires. Two red. Two black. Coiled in the battery area. They run along the starboard side past head and come out where the thru hulls for head are located. Must be for some potential add on equipment I guess. Anyone know? Thanks, Leslie Puffin 1986 Cal 33-2

Any chance they went to a potential anchor windlass connection? just a thought, Helen On Friday, May 26, 2017 11:13 AM, "'Charlie Husar' hu… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats]" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: From the size of the wires, I might guess it would be for a macerator? As I recall, those used some juice. Take CareCharlieAnnapolis From: Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com [mailto:Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 10:28 AM To: NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Subject: RE: [Cal_Boats] Cal 33 what are these wires? [1 Attachment] [Attachment(s) from aw… [at] bellsouth.net included below] The OEM battery charger in my 86 is capable of charging three batteries but the boat only had two. Maybe the factory laid in wires for the third, or a PO did, if you’re not the original owner. Look under the starboard vee berth to see if the other end is at the charger. Al Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 10:24 AM To: ca… [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cal 33 what are these wires? Maybe 6 gauge wires. Two red. Two black. Coiled in the battery area. They run along the starboard side past head and come out where the thru hulls for head are located. Must be for some potential add on equipment I guess. Anyone know?Thanks,Leslie Puffin 1986 Cal 33-2

On 5/26/2017 2:12 PM, 'Charlie Husar' hu… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] wrote: > > > From the size of the wires, I might guess it would be for a > macerator? As I recall, those used some juice. > This is a sailing story prompted by "macerator." I am a sailor today because I ran into an old high school teacher at Willow Run Airport when I was a college freshman and he offered me a summer job at a sailing school/rental operation. It changed my life. The enterprise operated from a long pier that stuck out into the Saginaw River near its mouth. It had been a day-fishing pier and the fishing company also had a large day-fishing boat that poked its bow out into Saginaw Bay. By 1966, the company had folded and the sailing school/rental moved into the prime location. To accommodate the public, a bathroom was added out on the pier, and to accommodate the public's output, a local guy built a "macerator/chlorinator." You'd flush and push a button to engage the motor that stirred things up, macerated, and chlorinated. The results would dump right into the river. These were the charming, innocent days when we thought nothing of dumping human waste into the places where we swam and drew drinking water. Boats still had heads that flushed directly outside the hull back in those charming days, as some of you may recall. The macerator-chlorinator worked for maybe one week. After that, we just flushed away. What the heck, the city dumped untreated waste into the river whenever it rained, and we did the same when we used the boat's head. What's a little human waste among friends? But apart from our willful ignorance about E. coli and who knows what other pathogens, it was that wonderful job that made me a sailor. At the end of 4 summers, my brother observed that when I graduated we wouldn't have free boats to sail. We ended up with the 1961 Seafarer, an old (7 years!) used boat that I stepped aboard for the 50th season when we launched on May 15. Sailing teaches us endurance, stoicism, self-reliance, creativity, independence, physics, critical thinking, and the unalloyed joy of just making the boat go efficiently. (It also teaches us how to balance the checkbook). I'm happy to be a sailor and happy that we don't dump our sewage any more. Chris Campbell > >

Thanks. No one end of wires is coiled right near the battery pair and the other end is coiled forward of the head, starboard side. Like they are meant for some add on equipment. I was thinking bow thruster, but figured that was silly for this size boat. The macerator idea is probably correct. But since no overboard discharge those wires will never get used. I should have pulled them out and used them for my third battery. Leslie On Friday, May 26, 2017, aw… [at] bellsouth.net [Cal_Boats] < Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > [Attachment(s) <#m_494793519525782782_TopText> from aw… [at] bellsouth.net > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aw… [at] bellsouth.net');> included below] > > The OEM battery charger in my 86 is capable of charging three batteries > but the boat only had two. Maybe the factory laid in wires for the third, > or a PO did, if you’re not the original owner. Look under the starboard > vee berth to see if the other end is at the charger. > > > > Al > > > > Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for > Windows 10 > > > > *From: *NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com');> > *Sent: *Friday, May 26, 2017 10:24 AM > *To: *ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ca… [at] yahoogroups.com');> > *Subject: *[Cal_Boats] Cal 33 what are these wires? > > > > > > Maybe 6 gauge wires. Two red. Two black. Coiled in the battery area. They > run along the starboard side past head and come out where the thru hulls > for head are located. Must be for some potential add on equipment I guess. > Anyone know? > > Thanks, > > Leslie > > Puffin 1986 Cal 33-2 > > > > >

That is where my battery charger is. On my boat there is room for a third battery ( but no box or support) outboard of the two under the forward dinette seat. Al > On May 28, 2017, at 7:10 AM, NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > Thanks. No one end of wires is coiled right near the battery pair and the other end is coiled forward of the head, starboard side. Like they are meant for some add on equipment. I was thinking bow thruster, but figured that was silly for this size boat. The macerator idea is probably correct. But since no overboard discharge those wires will never get used. I should have pulled them out and used them for my third battery. > > Leslie > >> On Friday, May 26, 2017, aw… [at] bellsouth.net [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: >> >> [Attachment(s) from aw… [at] bellsouth.net included below] >> The OEM battery charger in my 86 is capable of charging three batteries but the boat only had two. Maybe the factory laid in wires for the third, or a PO did, if you’re not the original owner. Look under the starboard vee berth to see if the other end is at the charger. >> >> >> >> Al >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail for Windows 10 >> >> >> >> From: NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] >> Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 10:24 AM >> To: ca… [at] yahoogroups.com >> Subject: [Cal_Boats] Cal 33 what are these wires? >> >> >> >> >> >> Maybe 6 gauge wires. Two red. Two black. Coiled in the battery area. They run along the starboard side past head and come out where the thru hulls for head are located. Must be for some potential add on equipment I guess. Anyone know? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Leslie >> >> Puffin 1986 Cal 33-2 >> >> >> >> > >

Oh. I see. My charger is located inside the cabinet just left of the breaker panel. I have shortened the starboard water tank and built a battery platform on the right side of settee, so now the water tank is between original battery bank and my new third battery. I lost a couple of gallons of water storage, but really like the location of the third battery. And I think we still have more than enough water storage for our needs. Leslie On Sunday, May 28, 2017, George Waschka <aw… [at] bellsouth.net> wrote: > That is where my battery charger is. On my boat there is room for a third > battery ( but no box or support) outboard of the two under the forward > dinette seat. > > Al > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On May 28, 2017, at 7:10 AM, NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','d2… [at] gmail.com');> [Cal_Boats] < > Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com');>> wrote: > > > > Thanks. No one end of wires is coiled right near the battery pair and the > other end is coiled forward of the head, starboard side. Like they are > meant for some add on equipment. I was thinking bow thruster, but figured > that was silly for this size boat. The macerator idea is probably correct. > But since no overboard discharge those wires will never get used. I should > have pulled them out and used them for my third battery. > Leslie > > On Friday, May 26, 2017, aw… [at] bellsouth.net > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','aw… [at] bellsouth.net');> [Cal_Boats] < > Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com');>> wrote: > >> >> [Attachment(s) <#m_7409358843939109974_m_494793519525782782_TopText> >> from aw… [at] bellsouth.net included below] >> >> The OEM battery charger in my 86 is capable of charging three batteries >> but the boat only had two. Maybe the factory laid in wires for the third, >> or a PO did, if you’re not the original owner. Look under the starboard >> vee berth to see if the other end is at the charger. >> >> >> >> Al >> >> >> >> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for >> Windows 10 >> >> >> >> *From: *NEWMAN d2… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] >> *Sent: *Friday, May 26, 2017 10:24 AM >> *To: *ca… [at] yahoogroups.com >> *Subject: *[Cal_Boats] Cal 33 what are these wires? >> >> >> >> >> >> Maybe 6 gauge wires. Two red. Two black. Coiled in the battery area. They >> run along the starboard side past head and come out where the thru hulls >> for head are located. Must be for some potential add on equipment I guess. >> Anyone know? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Leslie >> >> Puffin 1986 Cal 33-2 >> >> >> >> > >