Recent content by luckydude

I would definitely go with the larger tabs. I went from 9x12 (way too small) to 12x18 on my 228 and it made a huge difference. With the smaller tabs, I had to get off the throttle towards the top of each swell or I'd launch and pound. With the new tabs, in most conditions, I can just throttle...

Email grady white and ask them what seats they put on a 2020 228. Be prepared for your wallet to scream like a teenage girl at a horror movie.

My Grady is a 2020 and the seats are cushy. My friend's boat is a 1999 and the seats are just hard plastic. Maybe look into some cushy seats and then add the post?

Thanks for props. It is what it is, I'm more limited than I used to be but the seat helps, I'm mostly OK. Have some bad days but the good days I go fish. I don't know what I'd do with myself if I couldn't fish, being on the ocean is so much joy. And I have goals. I've geared up for albacore...

An update: I like it. It's still not as soft as I want but it is definitely getting better. I was out in my friend's 228 the other day, came back in feeling pretty pounded. My head was unhappy, I guess that is my new normal. Went out a week later in my boat, similar conditions, my head was...

I've got a 228 but other than the transom, I think it is the same hull. I got a seaspension after I had a stroke, lol, the doctors were all asking "Do you doing anything that bounces you around?" Uh, yeah, I fish on the Pacific, all it does is bounce me around. It pounds the crap out of me...

I thought the CL7 (I have one) was discontinued and all you could get was a CL5?

I thought it was a 228 but the transom is wrong. What other walk around models had a single main on a swim platform?

I have a buddy who has a Canyon 271, twin 300s. He goes bow in and he is an artist doing it. It's a pretty tight fit but he gets it in there every time. No bow thruster.

I replaced my hard top with a custom pilot house and Charlie Hicks put a tower up there and tilted my radar down a bit. It might quite the difference, I see more than I used to see. I liked Chris' advice, I'd give that a go.

That's a lot of boat for the money, good luck with the sale. What's the new boat?

What sort of fishing do you do? I looked at a 208 and it is fine for fishing 2 people. It is not fine for crabbing, the deck space is way too small (I'm sure someone will say they can do it but I find my 228 can feel cramped for crabbing). I can, and have, had 4 people rock fishing out of my...

Can't speak to a 226, never been on one. I've had following seas on my 228 many times. It can push you around a little but it's sort of like a car on snow/ice, once you have experienced it, it's fine. I'd trim the engine back and back off the trim tabs if you are in short period steep waves...

It breaks my heart to hear you say you are too old for this. I'm on the west coast, Santa Cruz mountains. I'm old as well, maybe not as old, I still hope to have 10-20 years of fishing in me if my prostrate doesn't get me. I will take you out if you come here. I'm the guy that put a pilot...

My enclosure has nothing to do with it, I had the same problems with the hard top. Very hard to stay on plane at under 20mph.