1987 Scepter

[OilFieldMan]

Well I made the jump from the 20 CC to a 23 Scepter. After riding on Wildman's 23cc I decided it was time to search for a 23 Seacraft and decided the Scepter would be best suited for my use. Being of Irish/Scottish decent I need some shade.

So I found this gem

1987 Hull with fresh paint, including hull and bottom paint. POwered by a 2007 250 hp Etec with abour 660 hours on it. 90% of its life has been trolling and idling. Pulled the EMM report and had two codes in its entire life span. A t-stat was stuck open and a starboard side head temp high. Researched the temps and found out it just got a bit warm. May have aerated the motor sucked some weeds but the ECM never got hot. Either way so theres a base t-stats and pumps will be done this spring.

Top has a full enclose with door



Boat was turn key, however I like redundancy so added the blueseas house/starting batter relay to add a second battery and a good charging methods

Which resulted in re-wiring behind the helm, because well all the connections were in the port aft corner of the boat. And it all got removed. I opened the cubby behind the helm and found this

With some meter testing figuring out ground and some alligator clips she was read to run (notice red and yellow alligator clips)


End result was with two smaller ground bus bars and one larger power supply bus bars


I started poking around and found the other bilge pump....there must be a bulkhead here creating a need for this pump in the cuddy

Thanks to wildman I found a killer deal on some outriggers on Craiglist

It has some extra do dads with interior cockpit lighting and green led's on the trim tabs which were wired with alligator clips.



I plan on adding second bilge pump aft with the USCG style float instead of the flapper. Also install the rule tournament series baitwell pump with the PERKO scoop and seacock. And hopefully do an early spring shake down.