I made the trip down to Louisiana to have Thanksgiving with my son and his family. Monday I decided to pull my boat out of his shed and get it ready for a trip to D'arbonne on Tuesday. I leave a boat with him so I don't have to pull one back and forth. When I was taking off the cover I found one of the transducer wires had been chewed in half by either a mouse or rat. There was a "nest" of pine needles in the boat and when I cleaned it out it was full of old nails and screws. When I took off the cover that concealed the wires for the rear nav lights, livewell and bilge I found them chewed too. And the wire for the 2nd finder. I spent all afternoon stripping and soldering wires, 23 solder joints in all. Today I install the batteries and see if I fixed everything. Not sure if transducer wires can be spliced but I had nothing to loose.

I hate rodents!!!!