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Finally got the new battery charger installed under the dinette table in the Catalina 22 family sloop. Now to complete the wiring to extend the power leads on the new Minn Kota 55 to the midships battery compartment. That it will all be worth the trouble was confirmed yesterday as I walked out on the dock to the boat. I passed a 25-foot sloop in which a young woman was sitting patiently in the cockpit while her date/boyfriend/husband strove to start his recalcitrant outboard so they could back out of the slip and go sailing. He was red in the face and looking angry as he pulled the starter at least twenty times before it finally caught. That’s what I’m aiming to avoid.