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HELP. BOAT WONT START

Is it possible the battery wires momentarily touched the opposite pole when you changed it? This might explain blown fuses.
Dive under the helm and look for inline fuses for the radio.
 
I just stumbled across this...I agree with @buckbuck. He is an electrician...Maybe a missed negative/positive battery connection. Or you blew a fuse somehow. Pulling the pump does not have anything electrical to do with it. What does work, electrically on the boat? If it was a neutral safety, lanyard, or clean out switch other stuff would power up. Did you do anything electrical prior to pulling the pump. Like disconnecting the battery.

Edit: missed all the responces last night, a day late and a dollar short. Glad you found the issue. Oh and [USERGROUP=9]@HELP[/USERGROUP] still does not work.
 
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Update to this tread :
It is 100% possible that when I placed the new battery in the compartment that the positive and negative touched opposite poles , the wires were on top of the battery for a few moments before hooking it up, because I was hooking two batteries for a parallel battery hookup.
replaced the fuses , and all is well and working fine now.
thanks again for everyone who helped.
 
Fuses will also blow if a circuit is energized when the batteries are connected in series rather than parallel. Ohm's Law.
 
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