Recent content by luckydude

I'm not gonna comment on the price, it is worth what someone will pay for it. My 228, it's around $180K that I have in it. What I will comment on, it's great boat. It's a little small for the pacific but it works. I can get it up and down my road. I could not get a 232 up and down my road...

Yeah, we were tossed 45 degree to 45 degree. It was shitty. The weird/cool thing is I was comfortable in those conditions, I knew the boat could handle it and just rode it out. If that was my first experience on the ocean, I would have sold the boat, it was shitty. Somehow I've gained enough...

The water was going in the bilge pump's hose outlet. It was that rough, we were rolling side to side and the outlet kept slipping below the water line. Yes, that's a rough day. Washing machine. My boat is pretty much self bailing but that's for water in the cockpit. The water was going...

I'm replacing the rear bilge pump and adding a 2nd. I think I'm inclined to put one on either side of the bulk head to give the boat a better chance. I agree that hole is too small. Also, my leak, wasn't. It was the sloppy conditions, the boat was rolling over enough that water was getting...

I forgot to add, he put 2 zero degree holders in there as well.

I don't own that boat but I've spent a *lot* of time on Jens' 271, he has a 2011ish that has the big coffin box in the front. His boat has 3 rod holders on each side, stock from the factory. I think. I know we run 6 rods for albacore, I just looked at my notes. Yes, 3 each side on the...

Hey Dennis, I don't think there is another one. My switches came with an "Aft Bilge" and "Forward Bilge" and nothing else. I'll tell you what I think happened, it's a little humor. You need to know that my first name is Larry (though I love being called Lucky, that's awesome). In my...

Yeah, I have a message in to Grady asking why they put it so high. I've had the baitwell out to replace the noisy baitwell pump. My memory is it is hard if you take the hose off the baitwell and easy if you take the hose off the transom wall, sound right? My plan is to lower the stock pump...

I've got a leak somewhere in my 2020 228, I have to track it down. I came to the dock recently and had over 5 minutes of water out of the plug hole, I've never had more than 30 seconds before and usually a lot less, sometimes it's completely dry. I wondered why my bilge pump wasn't going...

I don't have a CL5, I have a CL7 and I like it a lot. It's really just a garmin with a yahama app on it. So if you need to display any Garmin info on it, you can repurpose it. I used it as a chart plotter before I had the rest of my electronics put in. It's handy.

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...