Recent content by luckydude

I'm in Cambria right now, little mini vacation with my wife. Love the area and when rockfish opens I might pull my Grady down to Morro Bay and try my luck for a few days.

This thread reminds me of when I first put my Grady in the water. It was 2020, so covid, so I was solo and didn't know what I was doing. At all. The hull truth had told me that the 228 was a really soft hull, I was gonna love it. I put it in the water, lowered the engine, but left it trimmed...

I have a 250 on my 228. Claimed top speed is 47, I've hit 45 WOT. I feel like a gulfstream wants more oompf, I mostly see them with twins, either 2x 150 or 2x 200. When my boat is loaded up with gas, extra gas in 4 jugs, ice, and 3 people for tuna, it struggles to get on plane. It gets there...

Thanks for the heads up Seasick, but I avoid carbs like the plague. I'm all fuel injected, happily so. If I never clean another carb, that will be too soon.

Coming to this party late. I had a carbed 2 stroke 150hp yamaha on my previous boat. Fought that setup for 2 years before I gave up and sold it. I'm just chiming in because of the age, the guy I sold it to figured out that the fuel lines were rotting from the inside, the outsides looked fine...

I have a more modern engine, 2020 4 stroke 250. My water is pressurized to 50-60 PSI (pressure bladder) and I run it full blast into the engine and it seems fine. Pee stream is pretty normal (weaker than my Suzuki kicker, that guy pees!) and I get water out of the prop and another place on the...

I have a bloody decks account but don't look at it much. If you prefer that, I can dust that off. The trebles we use are https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CM5JJMPF?th=1 and they rarely come unbuttoned on the 150 pound BFT. Up here in northern california, we've done well in ares like the 601 and the...

I've tied the San Diego Jam, it's a big clump. I think it is a good knot (see below) but I'm not a fan. I might hit you up to come down there and fish with you if you are open to that idea, you seem pretty chill. On knots, here is the deal. I've been trying for tuna on my boat for a couple...

This is coming from the guy who is shelling out $5K for a custom cover. I tried off the shelf, it was way too heavy, I used it once. I did a custom for the hard top and used heavy material, that was a mistake. You want fairly light weight material because, if you are old like me and you have...

It's pretty easy if you have a drill and a jigsaw. I think I found some circular cap that was close enough in size and used a sharpy to make the circle, drilled two holes on either side, jigsaw in the hole, follow the line 180 degrees around, repeat in the other hole. You can be a little...

I did not this year. Had some prostate issues and was in the hospital during the Albie window and there was much going on BFT wise. Some, there may still be some hanging around and I might try when I get back from Florida. I finally have confidence in my BFT gear. Backed away from crimps...

I'm pretty sure the adventure hull is the same from the cockpit forward as a 228. There is a write up of my install on my 228, just search. It's loosening up nicely, I really like it.

I'm north of you in Santa Cruz, might be interested in swapping fishing trips. I here the vermiliion fishing is good down there. I can put you on halibut, rock fish, ling cod, crab, salmon (if they give us a season). Working on albacore and bluefin.

I wish you luck, like I said, you have good taste. That boat isn't perfect but it is a great sled. In our Pacific, it is much more comfortable in the slop than my 228. Not dissing the 228, 228 people don't get mad. The reality is you want as much length as you can get in our slop. The...

I think you are correct. I think my friend's 271 is a 2011. That coffin box is big but we have had to cut the tail off of bluefin to fit in there. You get to 150+ and even that box is not big enough and it's a big fish box.