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Please remember I am new to this. On my 2003 268, there is a button directly underneath the top of the throttle that you can press. When I bought the boat the old owner said it can be used in tight situations. It is not a bow thruster and when I push it while moving slowly I can tell that it does very little to the boats movement. Can anyone tell me what this is for? I can't find anything about it in the manual. The motor is a 320hp. The outdrive is a dual prop volvo.

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2003 268 Four Winns Vista
F-350 King Ranch Diesel (Tow)
1990 Four Winns Fredom 180

It's the nitrous injection button, in a tight situation, you push it and you can reach speeds in excess of 93mph in less than 4 seconds.

Actually, it's the trim for the drive. (If it is on the throttle handle itself)

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

great response, Capn. LOL.

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2006 348 Vista
"some days you're the bug and some days you're the windshield"

Actually I can think of three buttons you might be referring to. As the Capn says on the out side of the handle could be the trim on the out drive. You should learn how that effects the boat. (It will have little effect at slow speeds) The other directly under the handle is a lock to keep you from accidentally putting the boat into drive or reverse from neutral. I suspect that is not the one you refer of as you should have to squeeze it to operate the boat.

The third I can think of is to release the throttle from the drive so you can rev the engine without putting the boat into gear.

A description of where "under" the throttle would be helpful. A picture would be priceless.

Otherwise you are lucky enough to have gotten the nitro enhanced boat


I suppose one other possibility is a kill switch that has been disabled.

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2008 Horizon 260 VP 8.1 Gi

"the old owner said it can be used in tight situations"; It's not the ejector seat or torpedo launching button is it?

Seriously, as already described it's if it's on the handle itself it's the trim up/ down switch or the interlock to prevent the drive accidentally being put in gear.

Graham

My gut tells me he's referring to a toggle switch where that typical throttle lock is. On my 268 its a different shifter than my 225 had, and its a lot smoother shifting. My 225 had a neutral stop/lock, that you had to squeeze to put the boat in gear. My 268 doesn't have this, instead it has a little white toggle switch. I've pushed it both ways, and haven't noticed it doing anything.

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2007 358 T-5.7GXi IB
Previous Boats
'08 H240, '08 V318, '04 268, '04 225

"Tight situations" seems pretty cryptic...If it's not an ejecter seat maybe it's a cone of silence! That would be nice will running with the canvas down!!!

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Michael Bova


"Swept Aweigh"
2003 Four Winns 328 Vista

Previous Boat
2003 Crownline 230CCR

Mine has the same same switch you are referring to and it does nothing. I am not sure why it is there.

Every so often the lights in my garage go on and off for no reason.

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2008 Horizon 260 VP 8.1 Gi

It is not the trim, that is on the left side of the throttle. It's underneath the right side of the throttle. It may activate the ejection seats, I don't know. I will sit my Mother In Law in the seat next to me and conduct a test. Maybe it flushes the toilet! Just thought I would ask.

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2003 268 Four Winns Vista
F-350 King Ranch Diesel (Tow)
1990 Four Winns Fredom 180

The throttle arm has the drive-trim botton on the end of the "T", where your thumb is.

The small rocker switch on the underside of the "T", where your first two fingers (or maybe #2 & #3) would wrap under the "T", is for actuation of the trim tabs for left-right ballance. This switch is standard on the Volvo throttle/shift assembly that Four Winns used on these boats. However, this functional feature is not actually available or installed on the boats .... sooo ..... the switch is dead and totally non-functional.

..... according to Melvin Village Marina

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Gordon Arnold
New Hampshire

2003 268 Vista ..................................................................Prior: 97 245 Sundowner

Thank You Very Much!

I did like the ejections seat theory.

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2003 268 Four Winns Vista
F-350 King Ranch Diesel (Tow)
1990 Four Winns Fredom 180

Rats, I was hoping for the ejection seat because the pics would have been great with mother in laws flying everywhere.

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2008 318 Vista "Ka-wai-ola"
350 MPI/BravoIII DTS Seacore
2006 1500 Key West -70 Yamaha
Previous Boats
Key West 2300CC
Pacemaker 270 Sport Fish
290 Sea Ray

I keep forgetting to ask you, is that where you bought your 268?

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2007 358 T-5.7GXi IB
Previous Boats
'08 H240, '08 V318, '04 268, '04 225

Being able to adjust the trim tabs from the throttle sounds very useful, shame FW didn't wire the switch up ( I supposed it could be wired up to the standard trim tabs).

Mother in law ejection seats were not offered as an option in the UK!

Graham