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My 228 is 6 years old, it's a 2020, so perhaps it's time for some problems. Here is a little annoyance. Lately, when I go to fill the gas tank, the nozzle clicks off way too soon. I did this yesterday, put 55 gallons in to fill the 114 gallon tank, and it clicked off every 5-10 seconds. If...

I think they have always put the aft pump under the baitwell. That's not ideal because I like to see if the switch works annually. Other than removing the baitwell, my only other option is to fill the bilge with enough water that it turns on. The problem with that is it is gonna move all the...

So those of you who know me, know that I replaced the hard top with a custom pilot house because I wanted to be able to see. I did that a couple of years ago so I could see tuna. I've gone on a tuna journey, I put my madmacs in the water a couple of years ago and my stuff came undone like a...

I've got a leak somewhere in my 2020 228, I have to track it down. I came to the dock recently and had over 5 minutes of water out of the plug hole, I've never had more than 30 seconds before and usually a lot less, sometimes it's completely dry. I wondered why my bilge pump wasn't going...

I thought it was a 228 but the transom is wrong. What other walk around models had a single main on a swim platform?

I know they are expensive but I was watching a review and the boat got on plane at substantially lower RPM. I need to go look again, but if it could get, and keep, my boat on plane at 18mph instead of 21mph, I'd love that.

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...

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...

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...

I'm curious if anyone put a 9.9HP Suzuki on a 228 and then did the conversion to get 20HP out of it (well documented on the hull the truth). I'm wondering would 20 hp move my 228 faster, and if so, how much?

I am trying to keep fishing after a stroke in my brain. It ain't easy, an ocean that I would have thought was awesome before the stroke, makes my head feel like I'm gonna have another one. I'm desperately trying to find a way to keep fishing on the ocean, it's more or less all I have left at...

We have been looking for tuna, not getting them yet. My 228 is not an offshore boat but we have been going. 73 mile run back to the harbor today, it can be done, pick your days.

I have that little dedicated display for autopilot. It has the 10, 1, 1, 10 degree adjust menu on the bottom, is there a way to move that to the side or the top?

I have a bunch of Garmin stuff: AIS + GPS hockey puck, 24xd GPS/heading sensor on NMEA bus, Fantom 18, Reactor 40 auto pilot, 8610xsv, 943xsv, CL7 engine display (GPSmap 7607 + Yamaha app). I did a software upgrade yesterday by downloading the software from Garmin, unzipping it into an SD card...

One of my 3.5 year tires came apart on me. So I'm looking for new tires. A buddy said goodyear endurance - those are $190 each, seems spendy but is that the best answer? The trailer is 2 3500 pound axles so I'll do E rating.

My Pacific trailer came with steel cables that are rusting out (and don't look strong enough to hold 7000 pounds of boat and trailer). I found some 5/16" anchor chain that claims a working strength of 2500 pounds, breaking strength of 5000 pounds. Do people think that is strong enough to keep...

When Johnson-Hicks mounted my radar on my hard top, they mounted it pretty level. When Charlie Hicks (no relation) did my pilot house, he did about a 6 inch tower for the radar and tipped it down towards the bow about 4 or 5 degrees. Holy smokes, what a difference! Before, I didn't see...

Any ideas?

I googled for a while and I came up with nothing. Probably doing it wrong. What I'm looking for is a radio that records the last few minutes of audio. Why I want it is for when someone says some numbers, like a hot tuna bite, or a distress call. I want to be able to play back the numbers so...

Is it just me? I can't get to them. Can anyone else?