Hunter 25.5 Electrical Schematic

[JKCMBOAT]

Last winter we set our sights to restoring our newly acquired 1984 Hunter 25.5 to a safe and comfortably sailable condition! We accomplished that mission however due to timing and our strong desire to get Mariah on the water as early in the spring as possible we skipped over reconfiguring our electrical system.

I have found this online, http://www.ayesail.net/sailing/Hunter/Hunter23_45_old/pages/121.htm, but it is not that helpful.
Does anyone have a useful schematic they would be willing to share?

Also, Mariah is equipped with an outboard motor and originally had a lead from the motor mount to draw power from motor to be converted and charge the two batteries.

Thanks! Craig

 

[dcfleming]

I've been in the process of re-wiring my 84' Hunter 25.5 this past year. Along with replacing the wire I'm also putting in new LED lighting inside and out, as well as replacing the old fuse box with an all breaker one. I've never seen a plan of the boat's wiring and I've looked. I can send you the one I’ve made but it doesn’t reflect where the wiring is located just where things tie in to each other. I just used the old wiring as my guide for new wiring and only in a few spots was I not able to run the new wire in the same place; such as interior lighting wiring running through the headliner. It took a little while with some colored stickers, a voltmeter, and a long piece of wire with alligator clips to figure out how the interior lighting wiring connected to each other and then to the control panel. I connected new wire to short leads sticking out from around the headliner figuring that the actual wiring running to the dome lights inside the headliner was in pretty good shape due to being protected from the elements. While doing the wiring it was easy to make some smart modifications to the system. I moved the chart light, moved the stereo to the bulkhead, put flexible reading lights in both births, and added some soft stair lighting to aide with entering and exiting the boat when shadowy.

 

[rardiH36]

Hi Craig:

This seems to include a separate (and better) schematic for the original 25.5 wiring.

http://dc.moom.co.uk/Hunter_25.5_Manual.pdf

Suggest that you save the pdf... never know when if the website will go dead!

Also, if you haven"t yet discovered it yet, here is a link to a pdf of Hunter's original brochure for your model.

http://www.marlow-hunter.com/Models2011/HunterPreviousModels/25.5_1984-1987.pdf

 

[JKCMBOAT]

Thanks for the response. As I am in the research stage of the project any info you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

I've been in the process of re-wiring my 84' Hunter 25.5 this past year. Along with replacing the wire I'm also putting in new LED lighting inside and out, as well as replacing the old fuse box with an all breaker one. I've never seen a plan of the boat's wiring and I've looked. I can send you the one I’ve made but it doesn’t reflect where the wiring is located just where things tie in to each other. I just used the old wiring as my guide for new wiring and only in a few spots was I not able to run the new wire in the same place; such as interior lighting wiring running through the headliner. It took a little while with some colored stickers, a voltmeter, and a long piece of wire with alligator clips to figure out how the interior lighting wiring connected to each other and then to the control panel. I connected new wire to short leads sticking out from around the headliner figuring that the actual wiring running to the dome lights inside the headliner was in pretty good shape due to being protected from the elements. While doing the wiring it was easy to make some smart modifications to the system. I moved the chart light, moved the stereo to the bulkhead, put flexible reading lights in both births, and added some soft stair lighting to aide with entering and exiting the boat when shadowy.

 

[JKCMBOAT]

Thank you. I did find both of those documents last year. Those relics are all that is left from Hunter for this model. The admittedly do not support any technical documents from their historical fleets!

Hi Craig:

This seems to include a separate (and better) schematic for the original 25.5 wiring.

http://dc.moom.co.uk/Hunter_25.5_Manual.pdf

Suggest that you save the pdf... never know when if the website will go dead!

Also, if you haven"t yet discovered it yet, here is a link to a pdf of Hunter's original brochure for your model.

http://www.marlow-hunter.com/Models2011/HunterPreviousModels/25.5_1984-1987.pdf