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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?

I'm having a pilot house built to replace my hardtop (no more bar where I want to see) and I have been advised to paint it rather than powder coat it. I want to paint it to match the hull and I asked Grady and they told me this: Ratio for Paint: 4:1:2 1 quart of paint (09-037) 1 pint of paint...

Turns out that our local Grady dealer got bought by a Boston Whaler company. They say they are gonna support Grady but they don't know for how long. So I need to find a dealer that will get me parts at a decent price and is willing to mail them. A buddy said there is a big Grady dealer in...

Take a look at http://mcvoy.com/lm/phone/2024/33.html and hit the space bar to go to through 5 more pictures. See the hairline cracks? Easier to see on a computer. Are those normal or do I talk to Grady about them? And, yes, they were all there before I took the top off (I'm replacing it with...

So in my quest to replace the hardtop with a pilot house, I need some wires. 14 gauge dark blue/white - for spreaders 14 gauge gray/red - for nav light 10 gauge red - fuse box power line 10 gauge black - fuse box ground line The solid colors are easy but anyone have a source for two colored...

https://newwiremarine.com/marine-grade-switches/ Those guys? I want to change some of the accessory extras to "Spreaders" and "Rear baitwell".

On a 2020 228 (but I suspect/hope model doesn't matter?), are the spreader wires blue/white black/white?

To get rid of the bar that is right where I look when driving the boat and to able to look through glass when chasing tuna. My hardtop is sold but the windshield will go up for sale at some point soon. Someone should jump on that, a friend sold his for a pile because apparently you can't...

Does anyone know what the thread is on the overflow tube that screws in the bottom of the baitwell? Is that some standard thing? I know the tube is just run of the mill PVC you can get at any hardware store (because the rounded cross on mine broke and I replaced it with a drilled out PVC cap)...