Question about Hooking some Speakers Up in My Boat

[mcquesten 10+ year member]

I have a wakeboard boat, so these speakers are going to be going on the tower.

My question is; should I go with a bigger gauge wire since the runs from the amp to the speakers are going to be long. When I say long were probably talking close to 15 feet. I have a lot of 16 gauge, but I'm thinking I made need to go bigger.

Two of the speakers are going to be drawing 200 watts rms apiece, and the 3rd speaker will be drawing 400rms. If that matters.

Here are the speakers if you want to see them.

http://www.wetsounds.com/pages/products/3-SOME.html

Thanks

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[Wkbdkid 10+ year member]

In my boat (03 tige), I ran 14ga up the tower to all 4 speakers. 14 or 16 would be sufficient. Was a PITA fishing the wires through the tower.

 

[FenixAudio 10+ year member]

wake towers are always a *****, 14 would be good. last time i did this i had to lube the wire to get it all throught the tower. SUCKED!! i put in 2 focal pods and a **** tower light and what a pain. make wure you have a long fisher tape also. biggest reason it sucked it was 114 degrees out in the sun! way to go PHX summers....FML