[C38] C38 Dome light on cabin top

[Eldore Wood]

Hi Max,
 
                Shaya Amanzi also has no dome light above the table or any other place for that matter.  She is a 1982 model and the original owner had her built just for racing - maybe that has something to do with it?
 
Keep us posted on your lighting work - we would be interested in doing the same for our boat.
 
Cheers,


Eldore' Wood
Shaya Amanzi C38
Photographer/Artist
Kubili Fine Art Photography
www.kubili.com

--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Max Soto <maxsoto at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Max Soto <maxsoto at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [C38] C38 Dome light on cabin top
To: tdtron at earthlink.net, "Catalina 38 Listserve" <listserve at catalina38.org>
Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 10:21 AM


The only light that I have like yours is the one above the icebox, but none of the others.


So, that's it, I was going to start tapping on the fiberglass overhead looking for some hollow spot from a conduit, but now I'm not even going to waste my time doing that. 
I really hate the original lightning of my boat when I compared it to the very bright interior on new boats, so what I was planning to do a long time ago is to install a couple of  wood strips to route the wires across the overhead (from port to starboard) and install the lights in their way. I guess this and the plastic conduit are  the only way to install a light in the overhead. I'll let you know how it goes.


Regards,


Max





2009/10/16 Tom T. <tdtron at earthlink.net>


Hi gang,

All of my cabin lights have molded in place wiring.

I have:
two in the v-berth
one in the head
one in the passageway outside the head
one over the settee
one over the dinette table
one over the nav station
one over the galley
one over the quarter berth.
one over the refrigerator

All are original locations.

They make surface mounted conduit secured by double stick foam that could
be used to mount lights anywhere.  It won't look as good as molded in
wiring but it would allow you the opportunity to upgrade the wiring to a
large size and also make future wiring work much easier.  The molded in
wiring cannot be changed without destroying the boat.  They didn't use
conduit in the headliner so the wiring in my boat is there forever.  If
Catalina had just used even cheap poly hose for conduit in the cabin top,
it would have made it so much better for future wiring upgrades and
repairs.

The whole lightning harness was originally very light gage wire (16 or 18?)
which I changed to 10 gage but I had to keep each individual light branch
alone because there was no way to get the light gage wiring out of my
overhead.

Tom Troncalli



> [Original Message]
> From: Steve Smolinske <SSmolinske at rainierrubber.com>
> To: Catalina 38 Listserve <listserve at catalina38.org>
> Date: 10/16/2009 12:43:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [C38] C38 Dome light on cabin top

>
> Max, I noticed those sometime ago on Yachtworld I think it was original
on earlier models.
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: listserve-bounces at catalina38.org on behalf of Max Soto
> Sent: Thu 10/15/2009 7:25 PM
> To: Catalina 38 Listserve
> Subject: [C38] C38 Dome light on cabin top
>
>
>
>
> Hi Tom,
> I haven愒 seen that light in other C38s, in fact, is not even in the

wiring diagram. I saw this light before in two   C38s  for sale and went
looking for a closer look on my boat  but there were no sings of a previous
installation.
>
> It definetely wasn't stock on my boat.
> I agree that it is a very important light on a C38 and I'm trying to
desing something to route the wires. Does your boat has other dome lights
on the interior or only above the table???
> How about the other C38愀 on the list??



>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Max
>
> 2009/10/15 Tom T. <tdtron at earthlink.net <mailto:tdtron at earthlink.net> >
>
>
>       Hi Max,
>
>       That light position was original and the wiring is molded into the cabin
top between the inner and outer fiberglass shells.  I upgraded the original
light for a modern halogen light.  When I upgraded my wiring harness some
years ago, it was a lot of trouble because Catalina only left a very little
of the wiring showing at the harness inside the port cabinet over the
dinette.  I had to surgically cut back the fiberglass to expose enough wire
to solder on a longer lead to connect to my new 10 ga. harness.  The
original harness was 16 or 18 ga. and connected to the light leaders by
3-way crimp connectors which don't last forever in salt air.
>
>       I'm surprised your boat doesn't have a light unless it went bad and the
previous owner covered up the mounting holes to hide the fact there was a
light missing.  You may want to try to expose your harness where the deck
meets the hull inside the boat.  You may find you have a wiring branch
going up into the headlinner.  If so, you can use a toner to follow the
wire through the cabin top to expose where it should have a light.
>
>       That is a very important light on the 38 and I bet your boat had one at
one time.  Just guessing.
>
>       Tom Troncalli
>
>
>




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