There must be a manual override for the engine hatch
 

Incase the batteries die, right? Where is it on a 24 outlaw?

Nope. where is your battery switch?

No? I assume the battery switch is in the engine bay, is it not?

Mine was under the seat and I could just put a jumper cable on it. How many batteries do you have?

2 batteries

They aren't dead, I was just wondering how I can get the hatch open if they do die. A switch, or leads in the passenger compartment that I could connect cables to would work. I just don't know where it is.

It should be under the back seat.

There should be 2 threaded bolts sticking thru the seat base towards the starboard side, one has a red cover over it. That is the positive one, the other is the negative. If needed, you hook up power to those points and then you can open the hatch.

This is what I have. Thanks for the help. I also found an isolator switch for the batteries that I did not know about. :)

On our old Wellcrafts, the screw shaft for the engine hatch included a decent amount of 'play'. If the batteries died, you could pull the hatch up some and release a pin. Then you propped the hatch up on something else.

Don't ask me why, butbetween the batteries dying and fault screw shaft system, we did that alot.

I have 1 battery under the seat (that controls the hatch) and the switch is under the hatch as well. Its a good thing too, when I bought the boat, the batteies were weak, and I could not get the hatch open. would have been screwed, if it wasn't set up this way.

No over-ride. Last year my batteries were so dead (and shot!) that I had a fully charged, brand new deep cycle battery, + a 900ca jump pack hooked up to the screws that stick through the back seat, and the hatch BARELY lifted enough for me to disconnect the old batteries.

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Seems like a dumb design to me. I could never figure out why a lot of boat manufacturers put the switch in the hatch itself, instead of under the back seat, where it is accessible without operating the engine hatch.

My 252 is like other have said, switch and jump post under the back seat.

BUT Used to have a SeaRay 260 over nighter. (simalar disign, big sun pad, bench seat, captins chairs.)

well there was one cusion on the sun pad that had a separate hindge, that allowed you to lift that one cusion and get to and access hole/ circle thing you twist out and then you could reach you hand throught hte sun pad hatch, and either turn the batter switch, ot pull the pin on the ram that lifted the hatch, then you could manually lift it and do what ever.