Recent content by JeffN

Can't help with your core question but wasn't the Wahoo the inboard powered version of the sailfish. I enjoy seeing the older Gradys being restored. All the best with your project. I recently think I saw a Wahoo project on Marletplace.

Speaking only to the labor cost. I replaced the tank in my old Grady myself on my '83. The tank was accessed through a removable panel in the cockpit deck slightly larger than the tank the tank, easy job. A few years later I was speking to another Grady owner and he was talking costs of...

Call Grady perhaps, what year is the boat?

I recently downsized from my '83 25' Kingfish 254. Purchased used in 1987 and I parted ways with it in late summer this year. Anyway today I was going thru and grinding up old bills etc. While doing so I came accross an owners manual I had requested from Grady after I purchased the boat as there...

Redid my windows several years ago they had everything I needed.

Marine Glass Specialties I believe.

There was a company out of Miami that advertised on this site or used to anyway. They carried the window trim for Grady's. I'll try to find it.

The aluminum trim or the nonmetalic rubber and plastic parts?

As said above not enough info. If seriously thinking about it get a survey and that should give you an idea of the hull condition. The mechanicals would be a crap shoot. Original engine and drive? What make? Parts for I/Os of that era are getting scarce or nonexistent. I repowered my '83...

During that era I/Os were not uncommon in my area. I have an '83 Kingfish 254 (in '83 that's a Sailfish with single or twin I/O) mine had twin 170 HP Mercruisers. I still have it - repowered in '06 with a single Mercruiser 496, great boat and motor combination.

Probably a good call Rick. I had owned my boat 20 years when I repowered and knew what I had. Looked into a newer used boat at the time which was the popular opinion on the boards but I could not see the logic of buying an unknown boat with 10 year old, or more, outboards. Figured I was in then...

A Sailfish will be pretty doggy with a single 2 stroke I would think.

There is a 25' Grady of similar vintage locally that had OMCs in it originally. IIRC OMC drives of that era were the Cobra units as the stringer version had been retired. Am I correct that it is a motor that is locked up not the drives? Are the motors GM units I don't remember who OMC used as an...

Find a local canvas vendor and have a set made. They can measure and make you up a set. I had a set that came with my boat and when I needed new I had them copied. I had replaced the helm seats with over the counter cushions previously and they did not hold up, pink mold came through after a...

I replaced the tank in my 83 a few years ago. It failed in the area on the top of the tank under the forward inspection port. Got a new one from the original Grady supplier. Found out after I could have sourced a new tank closer to home. Same money but quicker. You maybe able to pull your fuel...