Modern yachts have a bewildering array of electronics wiring and black boxes. These tend to get hidden away making installation and fault checking a challenge. The basement design offers us the potential to solve this problem for the builder, and make the Owner’s life easier when he wants to add or update his electronics.
Circa is starting to connect the inside bridge controls and electronics on the first FPB 64. The cables which connect to the control heads (we’re looking at the underside of the bridge desk here) are pretty simple. It is wear these connect to their black boxes that it gets complex (when we show you the finished wiring in a couple of months this will be neat and orderly).
The bulkhead extension below the bridge desk into the basement is a perfect place for all of this wiring to come together. It is easy to work on now, and later when the occasional gremlins come to visit. The big black box on the left is for the Furuno NavNet 3D system. The NAIAD stabilizer junction box is centered. The two similar boxes just the right of center are the WH autopilot computers.
The blue cabling and various small junction boxes are for the NMEA 2000 backbone.
It looks like there is lots of space left but the AIS and sonar boxes still have to be installed, as does the Icom SSB box (which will be isolated from other gear).
Posted by Steve Dashew (December 6, 2009)
