Boat camera

Some of you maybe interested in this.   I've had one on both my last two boats and trucks.   

When you're towing with the cover on, you can't see behind the boat especially if you have a hydraulic jack plated 250, powerpole or Talons sticking up*.   The small cars like to get right up behind and "draft" you.   You can't see them.   The cover balloons a bit too.   When you signal lane change they shoot out from nowhere and have to be watching for them.   I've had several close encounters towing.   Originally, I asked my motorsport place to put a wireless back up camera in the outboard and a display in the cab.   Use a waterproof wide angle camera.   The first one we put in the cowling, but that made take the cowl off more tricky with the cable - had to leave a bunch of slack too.   The current one is in the lower cowl.   You need a set of wireless video transmitter and receiver, the RCA kind.   And a 5-7" back camera display .   All that and the wiring and cables won't be $100, because all this stuff comes from Amazon.  The down side is some of it's not real quality so you may have to replace some items.   I buy two of each or use two sources.  The camera cable goes to the transmitter which you mount in the boat, preferable up front in the bow well.   You mount the receiver under the rear bumper where it can get signal, not behind a frame rail or other obstruction.   Run a separate feed to the transmitter and install a fused switch by the battery compartment.   Do the same for the receiver.   You can get nice window sucker mount separate that's better than the ones that come with the displays.  I put the display in the upper right hand corner of the windshield near the headliner, so it's not blocking any views.    Run the wires and cable in split loom and under the vehicle.   Find a convenient passage that's waterproof to the cab and install on a switch and fuse the power line from the battery.  It's light gauge wire, 20-24, so only a few amps are plenty.    Easier to explain on a diagram but I don't have one, they come with the parts.   

Next time I'll try a completely wireless system without the video cables, but I didn't find one that mounts on the windshield yet.   

* - I'm going to go see the cover guy and see if he can modify my cover to allow the talons to pivot down and have the cover hold them.   I have the hinge brackets on, so I can go under places, like low bridges, etc..