Recent content by Chinookie

The gelcoat on my Seafarer 228 is oxidized and needs some love. I found a youtube channel about restoring an old Grady and he sanded then used poly glow. But boy howdy the stuff is expensive. Anyone used it with success? Are there less expensive alternatives? What do the wise folks here use? Thanks

1994 vintage - twin 150s on her.

Fellas, I said 2-3 foot seas with an occasional 4 in my post above but somehow 2-3 became 3-4 foot seas through the replies. Can we please rewind. I would like to know if a Gulfstream is capable of blasting through 2-3 foot chop without pounding? It didn't feel like it, although it could have...

I was a bit surprised at the outcome. No swells, for I was inland in the puget sound, but close spaced wind waves were two to three feet and occasional 4 according to the weather service. Headed directly into them and expected to cut through them like a knife through hot butter. But instead I...

Hoping someone can explain how brackets were mounted by Grady. I have a 1998 228 with a bracket. I often find that it has water in it after an outing, and have dismissed it as a possibly leaky seal in the top inspection plate. But is that where the water is coming from? Could it be coming from...

First, I possess little knowledge of seamanship. Eight years ago I ventured out with my son in a Northriver Seahawk, leaving La Push in a easterly wind. Midway to a halibut spot I had never been to a Coast guard rescue craft flew by me with lights flashing. I decided to turn back, as that looked...

Hi, thought I would run an idea by the forum for comment. I need new fuel tanks for my 228. The main tank is shot and the aux is running on borrowed time. The original drawings show .125 is to be used for the 92 gallon main tank, and .09 is to be used for the aux. My understanding is that when...

My 1997 228 has old plastic thru hulls, and I want to get rid of ALL the ones below the water line. I don't ever plan to use any of the live wells for several reasons, foremost is the chore of cleaning them afterwards. I also don't like the idea of below waterline thru hulls and hose that can...

One of the plastic thru hull fittings just disintegrated on my 228 and I will take that as a warning to replace all the below water fittings. Measuring the old fitting, its barbed section is 1 1/8” and the threaded section is 1 1/4”. But I cannot seem to find such a fitting in stainless or...

The story: I bought a new ezloader torsion bar dual axle trailer four months ago and paid a company to haul my Grady from the east coast to Seattle. Two weeks ago my neighbor noticed something I hadn’t, both of the tires on the right side are bald on the outside edges. I called ezloader...

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I am interested in the pulpit. I don’t know if it will fit a 228. Could I trouble you to measure the length and width and perhaps the bolts spacing? Thanks!

Good luck, I tried finding one in the area to look at a Grady 232 I was wanting to buy and all five I spoke with said that they don’t work on boats less than 50 foot in length. At one point I thought I would conduct my own survey, so I started watching videos on the electronic instruments that...

After a considerable amount of work on the boat since buying it a few months ago, today I took the 228 out for the first time for a trial spin. Immediately I was struck by how much I hated the bow pulpit rail obscuring visibility of what was ahead of me. It wasn’t until I got home and was...