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  1. Summertop511

    Shipping a Grady out west.

    Wehaulboats.com. Personally friends with the owner. Great guy, very professional
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    NEW redesigned 2023 Adventurer!

    https://www.gradywhite.com/models/walkaround-cabins/adventure-218/
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    2005 Grady White Seafarer 226 for sale

    I have the same year model boat with a 250 and best thing I ever did was a 19p mercury enertia prop.
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    Getting a raise

    Keep it down a hole deeper for rougher conditions.
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    Does Anybody Need a Shop Manual for a 3.3 L F250?

    I have a digital version if anyone needs it I can email it to them like someone did for me awhile back
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    Getting a raise

    All well and good during performance testing. Now get out in big following rolling seas where you have to trim up to keep bow up and the motor starts ventilating. I’d keep her down one from where you are at now.
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    Yamaha f225 knocking sound

    Break. Out. Another. Thousand.
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    Not a grady question but you guys know a bunch so

    I know exactly what you mean. Motor trim should set bow height! Unless stern is overweighted like he said. Inherited problem of brackets.
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    Not a grady question but you guys know a bunch so

    Sounds like you need a 31 Bertram or something similar. Big heavy center weight with a deep V cutting through everything. All outboards inherently have a ride on top of water vs inboards that ride deeper in the water on plane.
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    360 express purchase. Help wanted!

    Bang plate like every Grady
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    How does beam affect ride?

    Said it before and I’ll say it again. Any Grady with a bracket or integrated bracket don’t handle the rolling ocean seas with chop on top like a seaV 2 hull that goes all the way back to the motor mounted on boat. No the bracket doesn’t make it a bigger boat. It does on paper and at the dock...
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    Where 228’s Come From.

    Looks like the 228 owner went to the ivory color enclosure. Looks good.
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    Hardtop paint-265Express

    Wonder how much speed you pick up with no top lol
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    Your experience with a hydrofoil (especially on a 228)?

    It’s ashame they don’t make the 226 anymore. The bracket model is appealing but you get it, falls off plane low speed in ocean. Coming home yesterday in ocean 3600 rpm 14.2 mph. Easily on plane just slicing thru the waves that kicked up big time on top of the big rollers in afternoon. Could have...
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    Roughest Seas You’ve Endured - Seafarer 228?

    If brackets were so great with so little cons then why does all newest Grady design boats like freedom and fisherman’s have no brackets??
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    Roughest Seas You’ve Endured - Seafarer 228?

    Bracket doesn’t make boat bigger. Waves hit center which is under seat. Now….. a non bracket boat can put the V right in the wave with no added bow weight. And not fall off plane till much slower speeds.
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    WTB Seafarer 228, 2000-20016

    226 all the way for me. Crazy I was out during a small craft advisory and my cut out didn’t sink lol. No bracket maintenance/sealing or different paint for it. Easily on plane through big rollers. Scuppers sit above water line. Low speed around docks turns on its own axis. Best part. Other day...
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    Trip anticipation

    SS rub rail and it would be hard pressed to tell difference from a 2021 lol. Beautiful setup