Recent content by Jeff_R

I thought I would share some running shots my Friend Nancy Henahan took this past weekend for my 1988 190 Tournament. I was up meeting with a bunch of other Whaler Owners on Mullett Lake in Northern Mi and brought my Grady along because the Whaler was just too big to haul 600 miles round trip...

Grady_22 Nicely done. I too hate the aluminum cap on my 1988 190 Tournament and are looking at doing the exact same thing to mine. Last year I redid all of my thru-hull fittings and found the core to be solid but, I know that cap is the weak point in keeping the transom that way....

Unfortunately I am not able to have the Grady White I own and keep down here at my house and stored indoors. It sits outside in a storage yard all summer with the stern getting baked by the UV rays of the sun. I have a universal cover on the boat that comes a good ways down past the rub rails...

Here is how the OEM Stern Seats look and how the Bimini folds to hang on those hooks.

Congrats on the boat! I bought my 1988 190 Tourament back in January and have fixing it up and using it tons! I love the boat.

Really? I had no knowledge of this.....Huh, I need to find a copy!

Here are some more images of the 190 Tournament Live Well

This past weekend I finally finished up a couple odds and ends to get my new-to-me 1988 Grady-White 190 Tournament in a good spot. I have been using this a boat tons on our local Lakes and will likely be heading out to the Great Lakes this weekend. After 2.5 months I have to say I love the way...

On my 1988 190 Tournament the live well is in the transom well area in front of the motor... http://www.greatgrady.com/forum/gallery/image_page.php?album_id=28&image_id=626

192, interesting that you are getting the .036 measurement. The last set of thru-hulls I did on my Grady was with Moeller tubing. I just bought their 14" length and cut the sections I needed from it. I still have some stock from that and will check it's thickness once I am back home.

Could or you used a tube with a thinner wall thickness. The Moeller tubes and raw tube stock I get from McMaster Carr has noticeably thicker walls than the Sea Dog / Sea Choice tubes. McMaster-Carr 1 inch O.D. x .032 wall thickness x 3 feet long = #8950K792 1 1/4 inch O.D. x .032 wall...

192, Nice Job. When I did mine this winter I used O-Rings around the flare as that is the way I learned on Whalers. That said yours looks very clean...I think I will do them that way in the future. A couple things I noted.. I found out the hard way that using 5200 can bite you in the butt...

While I know the hull is rated for a 200hp motor I found the 1999 Yamaha Saltwater Series II 150 on my 190 Tournament hull to have plenty of power. The boat planed off no problem with 4 adults and 3 kids. It also ran at a top end of 47.1mph turning a Yamaha Stainless Steel 3 blade 19"p prop with...

Re: Worst fear realized on my 190 Tournmanet Urgh, Jay that sucks. I know that feeling as I went through it with my first Whaler. I ended up having to rebuild the entire deck on that boat. It was a learning experience for sure. I feel lucky that I found my transom dry when the motor was...

I removed my old stripes, decals and registration numbers using a hair dryer. I took me a about and hour to do the whole boat. I used acetone and a razor blade to clean up any gooey residue. You can wax and polish all you want but that will never get rid of the ghosting. You will need to wet...