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Boat setups

Contender boat batteries

Contender center consoles: high vibration, salt, dual starting batteries, tournament electrical.

A white center-console boat with a T-top in the shallows near a sandy beach. Recreational sailboats and powerboats tied in marina slips.

Fast and wet

Contenders pound. A 25 Tournament is a fast saltwater hull. Hold-downs and AGM or well-secured flooded starting batteries have to survive vibration. Flooded paste-shedding in a light tray is a bad match for that ride.

Twins and electronics

Twin outboards often mean two starting batteries plus an electronics or house battery. We replace what failed, and we still talk about the neighbor battery of the same age. Tournament electrical — multiple screens, pumps, and a washdown — is a house-load problem if it shares the start bank.

At the console

We do not guess a cranking number from the model name. Year, engines, and the open well decide the group size.

We come to the boat in the Florida towns we serve. Marine battery replacement and installation is the job, not hull sales.

On the boat

See marine battery work at the boat, counties we come to, the marine battery blog, and questions.