I had a guy from Michigan offer to fly to Virginia (on his dime) and letter the back of my boat for the cost of the vinyl (next to nothing) in exchange for a dive trip or two. He said he doesn't get enough warm water diving in Michigan, imagine that, and that Virginia/North Carolina are like paradise to him, so Peter's offer isn't too foreign. I'm going to read as much as I can and then ask questions of knowledgeable folks like y'all and that should hopefully be help enough. If not, I'll mail Peter a blow up raft and some MRE's for transportation and will have a sofa waiting when you get here...
I'm going to order a few spools of wire for best boat wire and wait on them to get in...then I'll have some more specific questions I'm sure. I hope it goes better than my darned Camaro, that thing now has a new clutch, slave cylinder, flywheel, master cylinder, throwout bearing and pilot bushing and I'm no closer to it being drivable than the day I started fooling with it.
If the boat wiring goes that way, I'm going to hitch the boat to the Camaro without the plug in it and drive (excuse me, PUSH) them both off the end of a boat ramp.