Marinette Boat Forum

The parallel switch is designed for momentary use only for cranking engines. If pushing the switch makes everything work, then you most likely have a bad/dead battery. Do you have an onboard battery charger? It should give voltage/current charge for each battery or LED indicator to show the state of...

The push button is the parallel switch. It uses both batteries to crank each engine.

You mentioned momentarily running the blower etc while holding that switch in.....have you tried cranking the port engine while pushing in that parallel switch?

Have you checked battery voltage for all batteries?

I 2nd Jeff's reinforcement suggestion. Marinette hulls do crack. I've seen 2 models that cracked up near the chine and the welder told me he has repaired a handful of Marinettes.

Around 1:54 you will see it in the middle of the boat yard.

https://youtu.be/8rGLJk6QsuY

Very curious to see how the hull performs at planing speeds. I have experienced a 37' sedan with twin 502 Crusader inboard re-power. At high speed on a calm day 2/3 of the hull was out of the water and the steering got a little squirrelly. Looks like a cool project. Keep us updated!! **FYI** If you ...

I've seen other manufacturers not use strainers but every Marinette I have seen had them. All boats should have shut offs.
Sounds like previous owner did some "custom upgrades".

Added Morse Controls, Norcold, Chrysler & Velvet drive, Steermaster cable steering and Engelhard corrosion manual.

Let me know if there is anything in particular you are looking for. If I have it I will upload it.

Added more manuals, schematics, spec sheets etc. Lots more to scan and upload.
Trying to organize into folders.
Let me know if access is denied to anything.

Jralbert, if you have a Gmail account you can upload it to your Google Drive and post a public link for all to download. Or email it to me and I can post it on my Drive.

-Karl