first thought?

[devovino]

Battery in for the 1st time this season, turn key, and click, nothing afterwards? No accessory power/light on now no nada..... GO!

[covertcombatant]

Did you Check the voltage on the battery?

[Zim]

Check to see if boats in neutral
Check lanyard
Check main fuse breaker
Battery is dead
Check battery connections if batteries good

In that order.

[UKandH]

As above.

It sounds like a loose or bad connection....or an open circuit battery. When you introduce a load to the system, the point of high resistance (your problem area) will go open circuit and fail.
As said, check battery first, with all things electrical start with the absolute basics, then work outwards.
Battery is at a good voltage and when started is engaged the voltage should remain at 10V or above, may dip down to 9V for a very short period.
Next check the voltage on the terminal that fixes to the battery opst to check its at the same as the battery, it could be a bad connection there.
Next one is to check it at the engine, check the voltage at the starter solenoid and the earth lead on the block.
The power is usually then tapped off from the solenoid to the boats main electrical system (sometimes via a trip) check this hasnt gone and tripped or is Open Circuit.
Check the earth from the engine to the main electrical system (same as the positive)
Next is the fuse block, on my Supra the main connection is mounted on the fuse block and is prone to failure, so check its good.
Is there a trip in the system, mine has an ignition power trip by the ignition switch...has it tripped open?
Obviously then check the fuses are ok.

I almost guarantee it will be one of the above

[devovino]

So luckily the problem lied in one of these things: I double checked that the throttle was in Neutral ( back in forth F/R a hand full of times) traced the cable to the transmission double checking it was in neutral, double checking the throttle at the Carb. Cleaning the battery terminals and connections with sandpaper. Re-installed the battery and had power again and all gauges were back to life! Turned the ol beast over, and sluggish from sitting all winter long, but was eventually able to fire up the old girl, its a beautiful thing! Hope next posts are about finally getting around to Rolling/Tipping some new color on it, adding a tower, and most importantly paddling into some waves! Thanks for the advice ya'll! Bring on summer~!

[UKandH]

Glad you got it sorted

[Zim]

So luckily the problem lied in one of these things: I double checked that the throttle was in Neutral ( back in forth F/R a hand full of times) traced the cable to the transmission double checking it was in neutral, double checking the throttle at the Carb. Cleaning the battery terminals and connections with sandpaper. Re-installed the battery and had power again and all gauges were back to life! Turned the ol beast over, and sluggish from sitting all winter long, but was eventually able to fire up the old girl, its a beautiful thing! Hope next posts are about finally getting around to Rolling/Tipping some new color on it, adding a tower, and most importantly paddling into some waves! Thanks for the advice ya'll! Bring on summer~!

Did you not pull the battery before winter? Should pull it out and stick it on a trickle charger in a warm/dry area so it lasts longer than a year or two.

[devovino]

Did you not pull the battery before winter? Should pull it out and stick it on a trickle charger in a warm/dry area so it lasts longer than a year or two.

Yeah I did a full winterization, and pulled the battery, charging it occasionally throughout the winter. Its just the motor is a beast, takes a little "motivation" after hibernating all winter. Having said this, hope to get it out on the water this weekend for a shake-down cruise, maybe some surfing! Cheers

[devovino]

So stepping back to this, was on the water today, all was ok for the most part. I am noticing however really slow cranking from the dock, Then got underway after running for about 20 minutes of slow idle. We just drifted for a half an hour with the radio going. Then I went to fire up the motor and it once again had really really slow cranking ( like the battery was dying) tried a few times it would not turn over, just slow cranking. The voltage meter was showing 12+ amps....

I decided to take off the observer seat and see what I could see, I noticed the negative terminal connector where it connects to the battery looked like it had gotten really hot, the metal of the connector looked "discolored", and extremely hot to the touch. Then as I would crank it, I could visually see the negative connector get red at one point at the battery connection. It did this a few time, after cranking it for a few seconds it got red in one little spot. It eventually turned over, we boated for another hour and the battery cables cooled down to the touch? I never turned it off for the hour/ hour 1/2 and it was fine? This is new to me, some sort of resistance somewhere?

[Jetlink]

How old is this boat? I may have missed it if it was said above.