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Don’t forget to increase the height of your bunk supports. It looks like you’re either resting on the cross beam or dangerously close. When you widen the bunk spacing an inch and then adjust the bunk angles to fit the contour of your hull, the keel is going to drop two or three inches lower than...

I’ve used Startron in several Yamahas and now my Suzukis and haven’t yet experienced a fuel problem. I run my motors about 150 hours yearly and use 10% ethanol exclusively.

I used black acrylic on my Marlin.

After Christmas, I replaced the MFDs and redid the dash on my Marlin.

The actuator switch itself is somewhat prone to failure. New ones are about $80.

They’ll do that depending on the air temperature and humidity.

It looks like your old Yamaha gauges are in decent shape. Don’t throw them away or let your Suzuki rigger keep them. They’ll sell quickly on Hull Truth or this site. They should be worth a few hundred dollars if they’re clean and still work properly.

I have an Airmar thru-hull transducer paired with one Garmin 1243xsv and a Garmin GT 56 UHD transom mounted transducer paired to a second 1243xsv. Both hold bottom well at 45MPH, but the Garmin transducer does it best.

If you have a 12v cordless drill or some other tool that uses a 12v power pack, you can plug your wires into the battery receptacles. The polarity is usually clearly marked. You may not want to operate electronics this way for a long period, but it’s a convenient way to test things out.

There’s plenty of room. I replaced my old Garmin 5212 MFDs with new Garmin 1243xsv units. The new units fit more easily than the old ones and have 12.1 inch touchscreens.

I‘ve just about completed the acrylic dash replacement. New switch covers are on the way. Replacing the lower dash where the gauges and switches are located was an afterthought, but I’m glad I did it. Still need to black out the screws on that panel.

I’m installing a new pair of 12” Garmins and will have the gloss black dash that Kizuna has. I’m thinking I’ll also replace the faux carbon fiber dash for the switches and gauges so that it matches the upper piece. Of course, then I’ll probably want to replace the old switches. It never ends.

The largest Suzuki 16" diameter prop you should need is 18.5 pitch. I have a tower and bottom paint and needed the 17 pitch prop to get my RPM up to 6000. The proper hole for a Marlin with new Suzukis is second from the top. You shouldn't have a cavitation problem.

I have the same motors. I use 16 x 17 pitch Suzuki props to get to 6,000 - 6,100 RPM. With a tower and bottom paint I needed the lower pitch to get to the top of the RPM range lightly loaded. I’m not sure why you’d want 30” shafts. What mounting hole are you using?

As I understand it, the problem with replacing only one battery is that when batteries are part of the same bank, the charger will read the weakest battery and can overcharge the other battery in the bank and damage it. If my charger operates as explained to me by ProMariner tech support, it...

I have a Pro Tournament Quad onboard charger. Do I need to replace both batteries in the bank to keep from degrading a new battery placed in the same bank with an older one during charging, or will my charger maintain all four batteries individually? I stay connected to shore power (batteries...

I haven’t pulled it out yet and didn’t look for a date when I load tested. I bought the boat with these batteries already installed a year and a half ago, so I don’t know the history. I would have removed the battery already, but it’s in the worst location and I’ll have to remove at least one...

I knew I had a battery issue after a failure to start while bottom fishing a while back. No problem, changed the battery switches and everything worked normally. I made sure all the cells were wet and hooked up to shore power as usual to charge batteries when I got back. I checked my batteries...

I just repowered my Marlin with DF300s. You’ll be very happy when you get yours.

My Marlin rode it out on the lift without problem. I'm about 70 miles or so north of Ian's landfall. One of the side vent windows caught air and popped out, but landed on the walkaround so I just put it back in. We were very lucky in the Tampa area. Thought we were ground zero until the last 24...