psneeld
Guru
Our 86 MT 34 (Diligent) passed a survey with flying colors (and shouldn’t have) our first trip was delivery run to Rockland ME from Portsmouth NH. My son, an audio engineer, always has a pen like AC electrical sniffer in his pocket to test speakers on stage. Just as we were about to leave he checked the boat speakers (metal cases 3 pair) they all rang hot for 110v, so did the faucet and taps in the galley!!!, ???.
We were unplugged and ready to cruise. The PO kept the boat on a mooring, and used it infrequently, his major brand inverter had been self installed and when on backfed 110 through poor grounds.
I rewired (every inch, 2-40 gal trash cans. We have 1, 110 outlet forward cabin, for tools only at the doc, no genset no inverter. Releying on 12 v only, we can lie a anchor in the fog for for 2 weeks of quiet comfort.
And in my eyes, in a few years after you sell the boat....some guy will write the #%÷^€(*@×$ PO rewired the boat and I can't believe he only put in ONE flipping 110V outlet.
While you dont need any more, and I think mostly 12V boats are great....I think most do not....so our decisions still will get bashed, even if your new ele trical system is up to ABYC standards.