So I'm sitting here at work and my wife sends me a text that says, "Call me"
She does this because my cell reception in my office is almost non-existent.
So I call and she says,
I looked out the garage door earlier to make sure my welcome sign is still on the house (been having hard rain and high winds all morning) and there is smoke coming out from the front of your boat.
I'm like WHAT???
I tell her I am on the way and to keep an eye on it and if she sees flames call the fire department.
I get there like 15 minutes later and as soon as I open the truck door in the driveway I can smell it.
Luckily the wires burned into before it caught the wood or carpet on fire.
No clue how or why but somehow the wires shorted out.
I have two wires going from the battery to my trolling motor plug in (it was unplugged) and two more wires for the power to my depth finder.
I used a heavy extension cord as the wire to go from the battery to the trolling motor plug and just put ends on the wires that came with the depth finder to attach it.
I didn't do an in depth investigation but I didn't see any mouse turds or anything so I really don't know how it happened.
Boat has been sitting since June.
I snapped a couple pics just because but not very good ones.
The wire burned enough that it melted down into the top of the battery and is burned through the cover all the way to the plug for the trolling motor.
Very very strange.
Just super glad it didn't catch everything under the front deck on fire.
She does this because my cell reception in my office is almost non-existent.
So I call and she says,
I looked out the garage door earlier to make sure my welcome sign is still on the house (been having hard rain and high winds all morning) and there is smoke coming out from the front of your boat.
I'm like WHAT???
I tell her I am on the way and to keep an eye on it and if she sees flames call the fire department.
I get there like 15 minutes later and as soon as I open the truck door in the driveway I can smell it.
Luckily the wires burned into before it caught the wood or carpet on fire.
No clue how or why but somehow the wires shorted out.
I have two wires going from the battery to my trolling motor plug in (it was unplugged) and two more wires for the power to my depth finder.
I used a heavy extension cord as the wire to go from the battery to the trolling motor plug and just put ends on the wires that came with the depth finder to attach it.
I didn't do an in depth investigation but I didn't see any mouse turds or anything so I really don't know how it happened.
Boat has been sitting since June.
I snapped a couple pics just because but not very good ones.
The wire burned enough that it melted down into the top of the battery and is burned through the cover all the way to the plug for the trolling motor.
Very very strange.
Just super glad it didn't catch everything under the front deck on fire.