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You have 2 choices to make, if you plan to sell in thenear future, do NOT repower, you will never get the value back on them on a used boat, you will get more then the old power but no where near your repower price, typically from what I've seen guys who repower then sell take a big hit. If you...

Chapmans is a great book, but honestly nothing is better then taking a course with an instructor if you are new to this, being able to ask questions and see tutorials and get details explinations as well as performing the tasks is the only way to go, a book cannot teach all that, although...

Call GW customer service and ask for a part number then call your Grady dealer direct and give them the part number, seems lately some dealers do not wan tto do the leg work, I had this happen but customer service came through with part numbers and parts are now on order for me. Also, Crocker's...

Your not going to damage the hull right away, but you do need to get it repaired in a timely fashion. Right now you have little to no damage to the hull itself, just cosemtic gel coat work that needs touching up, but if you let it go and use it a lot water will get under the gel coat and cause...

When we had our other boat for sale, we would offer a buyer a sea trial once we had a down payment in hand, which was fully refundable-the cost to launch the boat and price of fuel burned if the buyer did not buy the boat. If they purchased the boat we would eat the fees just to make the sale...

Something is wrong with that boat, for a 2004 that paint should not be peeling. It is not anything structural, just paint, typically awlgrip is what builders use, not sure what Grady uses. Nonetheless, it should last years, not 5 and peel, so something is wrong with that paint or something...

Get bigger or new batteries, batteries are typically the bigges culprit, on older boats wiring can be a cause as the wires carrode and are not as efficient as they sued to be and do not allow voltage to pass as well. What type and size battery are you using? This may help us troubleshoot your...

Did you troll with the engines out of sync, I always troll with them about 300-400rpms apart, the 4 strokes are very quiet and have a certain harmony to them and if run at the same rpm will actually have the same quiet harmony, running at different rpm's creates more noise which I've found makes...

A scum line is hard to prevent even with the best waxes if the water where the boat is stored is tinted brown and fairly dirty. Best thing you can do is wash the water line often, I would use a soft boat brush, I use a shur hold soft brush with orpine boat wash/wax. I do it about every week...

My buddies has a soft tank bladder, not sure of the brand but I can find out. He straps it in his cockpit and then stores it after he burns it on the way out. His is roughly 80gal. He actually put in a T in his fuel lines and added quick disconnects from the fuel bladder to the T so when he...

I had the same issue with my guage, said I burned 138 on a trip and I only got a total of 118 back in, I was told you can calibrate it, but have not figured out how to yet. Your fuel burn seems awesome, I ran 287 miles last weekend and burned 201 gal, but we ran out in a nasty chop and the fuel...

It was worse Fri, but the boat handles well if trimmed out right, just needed to pull the throttles back and take our time. Autopilot helps a lot too, lets me play with the throttles to soften the ride and not have to worry about staying on course every 30 seconds. Wed and Thurs should not...

We actually ran the Hudson canyon, changed our minds and course about 15miles out. Arrived at the hudson at 9pm ish, did not set on the chunk til almost 10pm. looked for a pot but did not find one, the 75 or so other boats out there had them all, so we found a stretch to drift and set the...

Going back out Friday night-Sat, going to try and chunk the evening and early morning, if that doesnt work we will be out early to jig and troll an hour or so before the fleet of boats arrive on the grounds. Hopefully we will have our fish by then and can call it a day and get home early...

Ran out today expecting the forcasted 2-4 seas, found a 5-6 ft sweel right at the bow, only managed 18mph on the ride out, so it took us a little longer then planned to get to the grounds. Ran about 55nm miles SE of Sandy Hook and set up on the troll a mile or so from the fleet, we wroked the...

Check the wiring on in the swicth, if it is intermitant it could either be a loose wire or the actual switch might have a loose connection or not be getting good contact when switched on. I'm surprised Grady has not told you where you can get a replacement if necessary, hopefully it is just a...

Yikes, that won't be a cheap fix. There is that little flip bracket on the engine that is to be used when tilted up, if you use it and relieve pressure from the cylinder you will not pop the seal on the tilt cylinder. My buddy didn't use his and it cost him roughly $2000 to have fixed...

Joe, why would you want a rod across the transom when trolling, personally I'd highly advise against it and here is why. I'm not sure if your triolling inshore for stripers or offshore for tuna, but either way that rod is now in the way and needw to be removed to fight any fish off the...

Not sure if it is an identical size match, but I'm adding is systems tricolor lights under my helm as one of my winter projects. I plan to place 2 just forward of my hardtop mesh bag and then run the wires under the bag and through the hardtop supports, they run about $110 a light and draw...

Just file it down smooth and coat it with clear antifouling so it does not corode, the only other option is to have the skeg replaced with an after market one, but unless you hve a noticable loss in steering or a vibration you did not have previously I'd leave it alone, no sense in spending...