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I put a reactor 40 in my 228. I have mixed feelings about it. When it works, it is *awesome*, one of the best upgrades I've done. OK, so the downsides. Don't get shadow drive unless you have power steering. Shadow drive shuts off the auto pilot when it thinks you are steering. I don't have...

I started a thread about dry bags and part of that was tools. So far, I have a gearwrench socket set, a Milwaukee screw driver with a ton of bits. a med size adjustable wrench. I think I need to up my wrench size so it can do the prop nut, or add a channel locks. Need to add a bunch of tie...

Mine is still breaking in but it's getting better. Ask me at the end of the summer.

Even in my cabin, water gets in from time to time. I store a socket set in there and I have rust on it (still usable but it is telling me I need to do better). One idea is the dry bags that rafters and kayakers use. Anyone have a better idea? I'm thinking: Tool bag Bluefin/bigeye bag...

Peter, I think the big wins of the 232 are weight and twin engines. I would never buy one with a single engine, twins give you more control. Comparing your 208 to the 232 with a single, yeah, not worth it. Against a 232 with twins? Worth it.

That is really disappointing. 208 gone, 228 gone, sorry 218 people, but that boat is a downgrade from those models, the euro transom cuts into your deck space a lot. I can't imagine trying crab from either a 208 or a 218. And now the 232 gone. It sure seems like Grady just wants to sell big...

I've been on a Worldcat, not a fan. If that's your other choice, get a Grady. The Worldcat is a sort of lumbering boat that gets crap mpg.

If you are getting into that size boat, I'd also consider a cat, like an Invincible. Freeman too, but Invincible has newer tech, I think they are a step ahead of Freeman. I'm friends with a guy who has a Canyon 271 and stepped up to an Invincible 38. He said that pulling away from the dock is...

I think you are making the right choice. I'd own a 232 if I could get it to my house but I can't. Narrow twisty road. Be sure to get one with twin engines, much more pleasant to maneuver.

There's a guy on here who, with his dad, has owned around 14 different Gradies and the 232 was his favorite. As for the bar, consider doing what I did and replace the hardtop with a custom pilot house: https://www.greatgrady.com/threads/pulling-the-trigger-on-a-pilot-house-on-the-228.37323/

I looked at Scout before going with a Grady and I agree with whoever said they seemed like they are lighter built. No disrespect intended, Scout makes a fine boat, I think Grady makes a more dated boat but a tougher boat.

For what it is worth, when I did my pilot house on my 2020, Peter brought up his 1999 228 and the hard top fit perfectly. The only difference was his fish box lids were thicker and we needed different hardware for that. Other than that, nothing changed in 21 years. So I agree, a 2000 era boat...

I don't have sea dek, I have something called deckadence, it's different. I'm in the Pacific, it's cold here, so no bare feet. And no idea if it gets hot. I got black and I suspect that does get hot. If I were to start over, I'd get a more neutral color, I don't have the heat problem, but...

I priced sea dek, they said it would be $2-3K. Came back with a quote for $7K and I told them thanks but no thanks. Then I found some other stuff and installed it myself: https://marineflooring.net/gallery/#bwg3/253 It's little curls of some sort of plastic fiber, makes for a nice cushion...

If you are on the kicker you are probably trolling at 2 or 3 knots, so there is no "quickly". I've been steering with the main for years without a problem.

OK, one more question. Does the Seastar gizmo care if the kicker is on port or starboard?

For those of you with Garmin autopilot, mine is a Reactor 40 w/ a GHC 50 display. One issue I have with it is that when you use it to navigate to someplace, it can lose its mind. Unless you throw the boat in gear immediately and get the boat on that blue line, if you have drifted off it, it...

What I'm wondering is if using seastar to move both engines requires more force at the steering wheel than just moving the main engine. Do you remember a change in steering pressure when you added the kicker?

They are 2 panes of glass bonded together, I believe similar to automotive glass. And they are flat, hence the divider in the middle - getting custom curved glass would have been really expensive and this is already pretty spendy. The windows were $1700 for the set of 4.

So pushing my 250 around with sea star is not the easiest. I tried loosening the bolt that makes it sticky and that turned out to be a mistake, then it was too easy to move the big engine and currents would move it around and the auto pilot goes into something called shadow drive, it thinks you...