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Even the enclosed transoms and the euro transoms get wet. If you remove the deck drains from the transom you will see that all grady did was to drill 2 1/2" holes through the plywood and install the fittings. The worst offender is the transom drain plug. Again the hole saw through 2 1/2" of...

1998 Grady switched over to Greenwood XL treated plywood.

Didn't Grady use pressure treated wood by '99? I would seal the bang cap and call it a day

My friends boat has twin 175 HPDI's on it with over 3k hours. Still running offshore for tuna.

My Grady has a lot of brass RivNuts holding panels in

That zinc is from a Volvo Penta outdrive and should be easy to find. They were installed with self-tapping screws which isn't the most secure. Anyway, most of the time the water you find in the Grady bracket is sweet water that comes in from the inspection plate on the top. When you install the...

Unfortunately there is still nothing as strong as plywood. Unfortunately GW cuts corners on their fiberglass work

A guy by me has a 15 year old Marlin. Grady fixed it no charge

Sometimes what is obvious to you is not necessarily obvious to someone else and vice-versa.

Tony, looking at the pics you provided at maximum resolution it appears to me that you are looking at an old repair, possibly structural probably cosmetic. It appears that there is compound under the gel coat. Regular body filler is hydroscopic and will crack in the winter when the water inside...

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I have to prime mine the first time I use it. After that it works fine for the season.

Blindmullet, I have to agree that wood is probably the strongest core material there is.

The big Grady's have balsa cored hulls. Not their finest idea. Change that to not the finest execution.

Karim, when it comes to boats we don't look at them as disposable, even though we probably should. I don't own a television or a vacuum cleaner or a car for that matter that is 30 years old but I do own a boat that almost is. In 1992 Grady probably thought that their boats would end up in a...