Many Sabre boats operate in the salt water but even when they do not you can rest assured that our owners will not find the dreaded "green dust" on their electrical wiring in time to come. Why, you ask? Because we go the extra distance and use only tinned wire throughout our boats DC electrical wiring system.
Tinned wire is copper wire just like the stuff that you see in your home and in most recreational boats. But before it is encased in it’s plastic cover, tinned wire is drawn through a bath of molten tin. When exposed to salt air or moist environments, tinned wire does not corrode. So in ten years from now when our Sabre 38 Express is inspected by a surveyor he will not find corrosion on the boat’s DC wiring.
In a Sabre 38 Hard Top Express there is over one half mile of wire! (2,803 feet is the number in the bill of materials). I had to go to engineering to get that answer and they had to look it up but it’s a staggering number. The wire weighs 350 pounds! Here’s an image of the electrical department at Sabre Yachts where our electricians prepare the wiring and electrical devices such as inverters for their installation in the hull.
Every hull’s electrical systems (they have a DC and an AC system) are planned out here in the electrical department and in the engineering
office. Some wires are included in harnesses and others are run and then enclosed into conduit running throughout the hull. So that owners and service yards know which wire is where, the yacht is supplied with a lit on wires with a numeric designation for each purpose. The owners manual and the electrical panel both have this listing available. The electrician will attach the number to each end of the wire so that it is visible both at the device end and at the circuit breaker panel. For example #15 on this list is the engine room light wiring.
Quality electrical wiring is critical to the integrity of the yacht’s systems and the yacht’s reliability, today and in ten years or more from today. At Sabre we take it very seriously.All of our electrical systems are built to ABYC (America Boat and Ship Council) and CE (European Community) standards.