Recent content by luckydude

For what it is worth, when I did my pilot house on my 2020, Peter brought up his 1999 228 and the hard top fit perfectly. The only difference was his fish box lids were thicker and we needed different hardware for that. Other than that, nothing changed in 21 years. So I agree, a 2000 era boat...

I don't have sea dek, I have something called deckadence, it's different. I'm in the Pacific, it's cold here, so no bare feet. And no idea if it gets hot. I got black and I suspect that does get hot. If I were to start over, I'd get a more neutral color, I don't have the heat problem, but...

I priced sea dek, they said it would be $2-3K. Came back with a quote for $7K and I told them thanks but no thanks. Then I found some other stuff and installed it myself: https://marineflooring.net/gallery/#bwg3/253 It's little curls of some sort of plastic fiber, makes for a nice cushion...

If you are on the kicker you are probably trolling at 2 or 3 knots, so there is no "quickly". I've been steering with the main for years without a problem.

OK, one more question. Does the Seastar gizmo care if the kicker is on port or starboard?

For those of you with Garmin autopilot, mine is a Reactor 40 w/ a GHC 50 display. One issue I have with it is that when you use it to navigate to someplace, it can lose its mind. Unless you throw the boat in gear immediately and get the boat on that blue line, if you have drifted off it, it...

What I'm wondering is if using seastar to move both engines requires more force at the steering wheel than just moving the main engine. Do you remember a change in steering pressure when you added the kicker?

They are 2 panes of glass bonded together, I believe similar to automotive glass. And they are flat, hence the divider in the middle - getting custom curved glass would have been really expensive and this is already pretty spendy. The windows were $1700 for the set of 4.

So pushing my 250 around with sea star is not the easiest. I tried loosening the bolt that makes it sticky and that turned out to be a mistake, then it was too easy to move the big engine and currents would move it around and the auto pilot goes into something called shadow drive, it thinks you...

Yes, I friends with a guy who is outfitting a cat, he went with mostly 9xxx models. That have yet another, faster, incompatible network, blue sky or something like that. So now you need NMEA, ethernet, and whatever new shiny thing Garmin came up with. Why you need faster than gig ether is a...

I do not but strangely enough, the guy who found the picture with the curved rears, Peter, he knows that boat. I know you guys give me credit for this build, and I'll take some, but Peter scoured the internet for pictures of pilot houses on 228s. When he found that arch, yeah, that's the one we...

There is a grab bar on the roof on either side. Works well for walking forward. I have taco outrigger bases installed, makes for a good grab high up. For the rest, I use the rod holders on the rear vertical tubes.

Does anyone understand what the different sizes of kicker brackets are for? Has anyone installed ezsteer with a Yamaha and a Suzuki kicker (or Yamaha kicker, I think they are pretty similar)?

Thanks. I'm pretty happy with it, my main goals were visibility and 3 sided protection and it achieves those. At a pretty steep cost, so I sort of understand why Grady doesn't do these. Though I bet that hardtop adds $15K to the price of the boat, this would be about $10K more than that. If...

That might be an issue. We haven't had a salmon season in the last 2 years but when we did, yeah, there is a fleet. I tend to fish away from the fleet, the salmon tend be at the edges of canyons and we have plenty here. I will fish in the fleet if it is off the charts, then I, or someone I...