Recent content by luckydude

15 knots is crazy in my book. We get white caps at 12 mph, so more like 10 knots, and that's when I typically head home. The wind builds once it starts. I 100% agree on the comfort thing. I'm on the ocean to have fun, not to prove how macho I am. So I like good weather windows. For tuna...

Hi from the SF Bay area. 228 with Santa Cruz as the main harbor but I fish from Monterey to Fort Bragg. Mostly Santa Cruz and Half Moon Bay but I go to where the fish are. Pull the boat with an electric Silverado, Chevy made a real electric truck.

Well, your 3 feet thing doesn't work here. I fish 6' @ 9s, it's not pleasant, but you can fish it. The worst I've been out in was 10' @ 12s, that was horrible, never again (I wasn't captain, in a friends boat, he's tougher than I am). 5@9 is getting there, 4@9 is quite pleasant. In my...

He probably means the oil changes, they are very expensive.

Sounds good to me. But someone still has to step forward and agree to moderate it or it will just be a clone of THT. That's a big ask.

I tow with a Silverado EV with the huge battery pack. I can do a 116 mile round trip from the Santa Cruz mountains to Half Moon Bay harbor and back on about a half a charge. I babied it the first time and I used 49% of the battery, drove it like I stole it the second time, used under 60%. My...

I have a login on THT and Bloody Decks and I never go there anymore. I like the GG forum, it's the 2nd best forum I've ever been on (first is the Duramax forum, that is a tightly run ship. I made friends with the moderator and it amuses me that you guys mentioned "keyboard cowboys". When I...

Normally I like to be helpful but I hate going to that side of the hill. I put in my 30 years and I am so done. Someone else needs to hassle Zucky.

There are two things I'm aware of that push people towards newer gradys: a) Wood, especially in the transom but also the stringers. It can rot and does. b) Seavee 2 hulls. So the wood is a problem because it can, and does, rot and it's very expensive to rip things apart and fix the rot...

I'm about 20 miles north of Morro Bay right now and I've seen 4 fishing boats up here. I'm not sure, but I think the closest boat ramp is Morro Bay, right? Do boats come up here to fish because there is less pressure or what? I'm completely clueless about fishing out of Morro Bay but would...

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...