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Old 06-13-2021, 01:22 PM   #5
wkearney99
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It probably will be simple, but unless a boat is "brand new" you're at the mercy of whatever may have been done to it in the intervening years.

It shouldn't be too difficult to eye up how it's wired now. Just find the other end, presumably at the junction box for the windlass solenoids. On my EB47 that's under the forward berth. The control wires come down from the flybridge, to the lower helm and then on to the solenoid control, along with wires down in from the bow foot switches. The much heavier gauge power leads come from the batteries to a breaker on lower helm (taking a detour to a hidden fuse panel close to the battery itself) and then to the solenoids.

It's entirely possible the 3 wires coming out of that switch head into a connector and only two of them come out the other side. If find such, make note of the condition of that connector. It's corroded then now would be as good a time as any to put something better in it's place.
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