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i just did the deck drains and hoses myself. it was about a day job and a definite pain. for what its worth, i didnt enjoy doing it, but i would do it again before paying someone else to do it unless they would do it for less than $300. what made it much easier is two things. 1 - i am 6'0"...

did you check with a different shop? i had my Chase upholstery 100% new custom made, and it was about 7k. the majority was missing when i bought it so there wasnt even much to use as a template. i cant imagine redoing the upholstery on one cushion would be more than a couple hundred.

that looks great. did you isolate the outboard from the SS?

it looks like im going with petit vivid. i heard on THT that "standard" pigments can be added to it. i plan to call petit and confirm

those numbers arent too bad. im running about 2.4 at 30 and top out at 52 with my twin 250s. i guess you saved a lot on install though, probably almost 10 years worth of fuel, haha. it definitely doesnt sit low in the water with the single. its nice to see a grady of that vintage with the...

its not a road i have gone down, but i have heard that some will have insurance issues. 700 hp seems like a lot of power for that boat

im using hard, not ablative. i prefer the look of no bottom paint, so i am trying to minimize contrast

wow, thats crazy

id argue that that little of a difference isnt worth the effort or money

thats fine. my boat lives on a trailer. more than anything, i want to pretty it up since the current paint is splotchy and i dont want to pay to restore it to gelcoat and definitely dont have time to do that myself. i want it to look as close to not bottom painted as possible

ah, ok. i didnt know the engine mount brackets were aluminum.

is that size required?!?!?!

would a 316 ss cap be better than aluminum? why doesnt anyone do that?

if your boat really is perfect for what you do, than anything different would not be perfect, right? or did you realize that your current boat is in fact, not perfect?

ill be painting the bottom soon and want something that is as close to color matched to the GW gelcoat color as possible. it would need to be a hard paint (not ablative). has anyone used something that looks pretty close?

so, with the boat on the trailer, you measured a total weight (boat and trailer) of over 8400 with fuel, water, gear, and misc crap?

this is actually what i suspect as well, but have no concrete evidence to support it. my transom also has large aluminum brackets that bolt to the stringers. not sure if that was on the shorter running surface boats as well. some day i will roll mine across the scales

id be interested in the details as well. the advertised dry weight includes no fuel, no engines, no personal stuff that accumulates over the years...

its a similar illogical pattern for the Chase line as well. Grady didnt have an answer when i called except for possibly more standard features.

this has been talked about a few times here. there is some doubt in the applicability of the weights listed for comparing apples to apples boats. There are models in the early 2000s with similiar weight changs with no major re-designs. could they have just laid heavier glass? maybe. could...