When I purchased my 1979 Hunter 30, and the batteries were in the lazarette and not held down to anything. The fuel tank was on a wooden shelf above and aft of the prop shaft seal. There are some nubs on the bottom of the cockpit floor just forward of the pedestal that look like something important was hacked off by some PO (see pics). I started digging into things to replace the frozen control cables and remove the fuel tank for cleaning, and thought I should put the batteries in a spot that leaves the lazarette open for PFD, fenders, etc. I'm thinking the batteries originally shared the wooden shelf with the fuel tank, just forward of the tank. The tank is leaky, so I will likely get a custom one made that uses more of the space that is currently below the shelf, and leave more room for batteries.
So I'm hoping you owners of '79 and older H30s (80 and later seem to be different in this area) can help me with a few things:
1. Where do your batteries reside, and how are they held in place?
2. Do you have some fiberglass structural members attached to the cockpit floor between the tranny and the fuel tank? What are they? Any pics would be helpful.
3. How are your engine control cables routed? What are the housings connected to? My shifter cable housing was screwed to the wooden shelf, and the speed cable housing was clamped to the exhaust. The engine is a Yanmar YSM-12. The Yanmar manual shows the shifter cable looping around from the front and held by a bracket on the engine.
The pictures are taken from the quarter berth, with most of the wood panels and the fuel tank removed so you can see right through the engine compartment into the lazarette. The steering pedestal and below-deck pulleys have also been removed (the radius wheel is visible in the second pic).
Ben
So I'm hoping you owners of '79 and older H30s (80 and later seem to be different in this area) can help me with a few things:
1. Where do your batteries reside, and how are they held in place?
2. Do you have some fiberglass structural members attached to the cockpit floor between the tranny and the fuel tank? What are they? Any pics would be helpful.
3. How are your engine control cables routed? What are the housings connected to? My shifter cable housing was screwed to the wooden shelf, and the speed cable housing was clamped to the exhaust. The engine is a Yanmar YSM-12. The Yanmar manual shows the shifter cable looping around from the front and held by a bracket on the engine.
The pictures are taken from the quarter berth, with most of the wood panels and the fuel tank removed so you can see right through the engine compartment into the lazarette. The steering pedestal and below-deck pulleys have also been removed (the radius wheel is visible in the second pic).
Ben