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I would install a Blue Sea's surface mount circuit breaker on the battery switch panel near the battery. That is where it belongs from a protection standpoint. You should not be resetting the breaker. I bend at least one anchor each winter in Florida. I only had to reset it once when the anchor...

The biggest issue with 1/4" 1/2" splice is too much line in the locker. The windlass won't swallow the splice. Sometimes you have to climb up there and knock the pile down. As far as setup her is mine. I installed a pivoting anchor roller what I refinished the bow pulpit. Works great. Used...

Basic shoot thru the hull transducer. The 7612xsv supports 2 transducers. You may need a transducer splitter cable. Get the old one working and leave it in the boat. Get something better if you are fishing. Depends on what type of fishing you are doing.

Two cracked rear tower legs? That's odd. Is the hardtop damage from a bridge accident or something else? I did take my tower off the boat a few years ago to refinish the hardtop and tower. Not my area of expertise (welding) but it's not clear to me why they don't re-weld them in place. I think...

No. I'm working with my fiberglass guy discussing how best to repair the transom and possibly stringers. That photo shows how the stringers are installed and where the aluminum bracket will connect to. Most fiberglass guys do the transom from outside. Less topside repair. I prefer that he take...

Boat is at the shop. Going to start taking things apart this week to see how far I will have to go with this restoration. I found this excellent photo of a restoration of someone else's 268 Islander. !996 model vs. my 1997. Forward/aft tank compartment is different from mine - probably GW...

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My single bank Noco occasionally lock up (red light on front) when I'm running bait pumps and charging overnight. This battery also handles my bow thruster - which isn't being used overnight. It's likely a combination of the thruster drawing the battery down and the pumps for the baitwells when...

So did you find a boat yet?

I use all AGM batteries on my 1997 Islander with 2006 Yamaha F150's. ProMariner 3-bank HD charger and one Noco single bank for the bow thruster. All these batteries are Duracell AGM Marines - 3x34M AGM and 1x27M AGM. All bought thru Sam's Club. The batteries are made by one of the largest...

Hatch mounting was the original and best choice for mounting on my boat and probably yours. Perfect drop into rope locker. If you mount to the hatch the backing should go out to all the edges and include the hinges. The windlass won't pull out of the hatch or break the hinges. Hinges are a...

It’s not the hinge that tears out. The hatch wedging into the recess is quite strong. I was distracted and leaned on “up” instead of down. Tore the hatch out at the hinges. Fabricated a 3/4” plywood as a temp. Then built a mold and fabricated a Coosa board version.

My windlass was installed on anchor locker hatch. Pulls and drops anchor line into locker. Switched to Lewmar ProFish. Works fine but if you are not careful I have heard you can tear the hatch out!

I have had a number of ProMariner chargers over the years. First thing I would check is the inline fuses at each of the batteries. I cooked several of them on different units. They load shift and if certain batteries are run down the amperage would heat up the cheap fuse holders and they would...

Thank you! I fish the big tournaments in Cape May area on a friend's boat. I walk the docks and see a couple hundred 50 to 90 foot production to full custom battlewagons each year. Most are painted. A few are wraps. Michael Jordan's $15 million dollar 82' Catch 23 is a wrap (elephant...

Wraps are an alternative but not my first choice. The AwlGrip AwlCraft 2000 is a stunning repairable finish. I couldn’t be happier with it.

You did all the right things. I fought water in fuel problems for a number of years. Particularly early in the year when I took my boat South to Florida. I tried stabilizers. switched to running only ethanol-free fuel, installed O-rings on fuel fills (mine were non-existent). A few times I...

20 years ago GW didn't do the best job insulating the contact points for the tanks. The adhesive on the neoprene strips breaks down, strips move and trap water. Over time this corrodes the bottom of the tank. Even the top of the tank under the mounting blocks. On my 268 Islander the step had to...

I'm back to doing the transom myself. It will be done from the inside with epoxy and Coosa board. Oil removed from engines last weekend. Waiting on a friend to drop off his backhoe to lift the engines off. Store on shipping frames.

I have a 1997 268 Islander. It's not going to be easy to find a hardtop and tower. If you do condition and refinishing it will be a big factor. And you will need an enclosure made. I refinished my hardtop, tower and enclosure a few years back. Everyone I talked to told me to just build new...