Assume you mean inside the cockpit. That would be fine but outside the boat -- uh, uh. Mine is too close to the desk, only a few inches up. I would keep a new installation higher

Any concern with crossed, stern dock lines chaffing the shore cord?
Would keep it up high as the prop wash/wake tend to splash up transom and run up on top of the swim platform when backing down on throttle.

Disconnect the old wiring at the boat breaker panel or else the old plug pins will become hot when you plug in the new outlet. That would be bad.

-Karl

On most new boats I have seen the shore power receptacle is on the outside of the hull, usually above the gunnel. And by most I mean walk around your marina and see if you can find a boat that has it on the inside that isn't named Marinette. I think on the STBD side area right in front of where you board would be good. Sort of under the Marinette logo and aft a few inches. It's a huge pain where it's located now under the wheel at the helm. All the shore power receptacles on shore are "outside".. What's the big deal.

Sean

Don't know about the regulation issues, but it would be great to have a cockpit free of shore power cords.
Jim

My thoughts exactly, get the cord out from under the helm and free of the cockpit area and also to elimnate people tripping over it if i located it on the outside above the gunwale. where is it located on a Sedan Bridge??

I still vote no. What happens when the "waterproofing" fails (which will "never" happen until it does). This is AC power you are messing with. A friend had a silverton w/an auto cord restractorin the cockpit. Expensive but quite tidy and effective. The cord was stowed below deck. Nah, I don't like that one, either. Nasty under the deck and quite hard to reach for repair.

Sunset Seeker's a 32' Sedan Bridge. Like Jim's notation, the shore power recepticles are located in the forward port cockpit wall, next to the ladder. I'm glad that they're at that location for a few reasons:
1. We have a ritual that we follow re: connect / disconnect shore power -
- Leaving dock: engines started, water from exhausts checked (ie. pumps runnin'?), turn
off shore power at stantion, disconnect shore power in cockpit, hand
off (keeping 'em out of the water, dead or not)and coil at stantion.
- Return to dock: Back in, initial tie off, shut down engines, finish tie off, retrieve
shore power cords, string from stantion to back of boat(keeping out
of water using a velcro pigtail to attach to rail and maintain water
clearance), attach at boat connectors, turn on power at stantion.

2. If the power connectors were on the outside and (thru some fluke), shore power hadn't been
switched off, and in a 1 in a thousand "oops" drop of the cord into the water could have some
serious consequenses.
- How far would the electrical charge in the water travel? Would the stantion breaker
trip instantaneously? Is there someone in the water that could be shocked? Or is
there someone with an aluminum gaff trying to fish something out of the water?

While a stretch, I know, I just wouldn't want to be trying to explain to a parent why their kid, innocently swimming/playing off the end of an adjacent boat, had been harmed by my unintentional "oops". With our ritual and the fact that, with the power connectors on the inside of the cockpit where there's stability and positive control, there's no chance of an "oops" happening.

Bill (and yeah, my kids crowned me with the monicker "Overkill Bill" some time back. )