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I have a working head with holding tank on my 268 Islander. It's almost never used as a head. I line the toilet with the black 5-gallon bags that the bucket head uses and have a small disposal bucket next to the head. Primarly used for #2 by the boys. It is a little inconvenient but less...

Get the gentleman back to do the job right and fix it.

You should replace all the transom wood. The problem is the transom separates from the stringers. Everything is damaged and hard to attach to. No other drawings.

Best I can do... You are going to have to document it as you take it apart. I'm doing mine this summer. Plan is to cut out the deck around the well. Take top half of boat off.

Transom sandwich for 268 from GW. Transom separates from stringers that hold it vertical. You need to replace parts of them too.

Where in the world are you? Please update your profile. It looks really bad. But what I'm lookin for are stress cracks on the exterior of the transom. When they fail the transom rotates out with vertical stress cracks. Boat doesn't look well maintained. You are going to need more duct tape.

The water that gets into the boat will be under the fuel tanks at the dock. When you put the boat up on plane trim the nose up and the water will run to the aft compartment and be pumped out. You should be able to see it on your bilge pump dash light. Once it is dried out go fishing. At the end...

Good searches always comes down to the keywords. “Groco macerator” is a precision search that can be refined from there. I would read thru some of the posts in the 7 pages and maybe add a one or two search terms to the original search. I know I have posted a dozen plus times on this topic...

I always encourage new members to learn to search on GG when they first join. There is a tremendous amount of experience captured in GG forum posts. Look there and you can save yourself a lot of time and aggravation. Great Grady returned 7 pages of post related to Groco Macerator...

Clearly you didn't spend any time learning how to search correctly. That Groco macerator is discussed often. Not really a big deal to fix. Hacking an alternative is a little problematic but been done before (several times).

What kind of housing do you want to rent? Do you want the boat in the water all the time? I rent a house each year in Islamorada (Lower Mantacumbe) every year for 2 to 2 1/2 months. House is on a canal on Atlantic side. Many more houses on bay side. This is a quiet key (which we like). Longer...

I've done Lauderdale and the Keys that time of year for 20+years. Pompano Beach, Islamorda and Key Colony Beach. Mostly Islamorada. What do you want to do there?

My SD card reader (square one) is loose in the overhead box - you can see it next to the microphone cord blow the cover. There is no reason to ever remove the Active Captain card. Only one is permitted per "system" (not one per MFD). 8610xsv and 8612xsv MFD's. There is only the Active Captain SD...

Go to West Marine and buy a stubby VHF antenna. Good to have in your ASB in case you break the big one. You can get NOAA weather with a coat hanger for an antenna. Any boating friends with an antenna laying around? How about your marina? I would look around the last thing you did around the...

Garmin offers an external SD card reader. Plugs into the back of the unit and you can put it somewhere easy to get to. Mine is loose and next to my VHF. I have an Active Captain 32GB SD card in the back of one of the units and other slots are unused. The external SD reader has 2 SD cards I use...

Replace them with Starboard - Seafoam.

Mixing different manufacturers on a boat network can be a bit tricky. Especially with older equipment. NMEA 0183 is discrete wiring and more configuration. NMEA 2000 is plug-and-play. Then there are proprietary networks. Becomes harder to wire/setup/configure if you are not familiar with the...

The autopilot will have a magnetic heading sensor in it. The trick is networking the different manufacturers units. You should have an electronics guy go over all the setups and connections. Where are you located? Someone here on GG can recommend someone.

The Lowrance HDS 12 Gen 3 looks to be a current product. I'm going to assume that the chart plotter was replaced before you bought the boat. The puck on the hardtop looks like it's been there awhile. It's possible it is a Lorance Point-1 puck which includes a magnetic heading sensor...

Is this a new install? Did that compass rose ever work? First thing to try is setting the unit to heading-up orientation. To set the magnetic heading on a Lowrance HDS 12 Gen 3, first go to the Chart page and access Chart Options, then select Heading Up under the Orientation tab. For the most...