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Hi All: Our Tournament 225 will be 8 this summer, and there is really only one thing I want to improve this spring. We currently carry 250 or 300' of 5/8" anchor rode in the locker, can't remember exactly, along with 20' of chain and a Fortress FX-11 anchor. The anchor is one size bigger than...

Hi Guys - our 2007 Tournament 225 is starting to show stains on the gel pat even after I clean her up pretty good with soap and water and a scrubbie... Is it safe to use soft scrub with bleach, or are there cleaning agents that are a better idea? Thanks a lot for any input :)

I can't figure out the Grady White Insanity on the Hull Truth site. The typical post starts out with some well meaning person who is considering a few different boats and is looking for advice. One of them is a grady. Then a few people give intelligent responses about the pros and cons of the...

Our boat is a 22 ft Tournament and I am paying about $2,400 per year for winterizing, shrink wrap and winter storage. I keep the boat with the dealer that we bought it from, because they have been great and I want to avoid any complications with any warranty issues that come up. As I wrote the...

My shades are falling apart - can anyone recommend good sunglasses for fishing. I have polarized Maui Jims now - is Costa Del Mar any better? What about color? gray vs. amber etc... I would appreciate any thoughts... Thanks!

Our boat has been in the water for 3 weeks and like an idiot I bounced the lower unit off a rock this afternoon. What an awful feeling... It continued to run and sounded ok, so I limped home at a moderate speed. Seemed to run fine actually, but when I got to the dock, I found no reverse and...

I keep the boat on a mooring in salt water, and it is difficult to get to a dock with a hose where I can flush the engine with fresh water. The boat carries 11 gal of fresh water. It would be great if I could flush some of that through the Yammi, but the only outlet of the freshwater system is...

Here's an easy one: (non-controversial too!) Does anyone know the distance from the bow cleats on a 225 down to the water? I am bottom painting a new set of mooring bridles and I want to make sure that I bottom paint all of the line that ends up in the water, but not that much more. The...

How many seasons do you expect to get out of your batteries assuming normal operations without "problem" battery drains...? We are going into year 3 and a neighbor mentioned that I should only expect 2 years out of a marine battery. I sort of doubt that. The batteries in our previous boat...

I have to plug my dealer - Catalano and Sons from Greenwich, CT. When I picked up the boat for the year, they told me that the fuel tank float and sender seemed to have frozen up over the winter, but that it may loosen up after I bounce over a few waves. They said they would come replace it...

Edgewater has a new boat design called a 245CX - they are billing it as a cross over, but basically its a dual console. It has a very similar layout to our Tournament 225, but instead of a 2' swim bracket, it has a euro transom that occupies a similar area. It has a sink station behind the...

OK - I know this is a long shot - but it never hurts to ask.... We are taking the kids to a town called Fajardo on the East Coast of Puerto Rico. It is close to the island of Vieques. We will be there during the first week of March. Has anybody been fishing down there? Any pointers...

Anybody have an opinion about this...is it desirable to use a Yamaha engine cover if your boat lives on a mooring? I could see the protection from the sun being helpful, but I could also see the thing getting wet and salt encrusted and thereby causing more harm than good. Thanks - I hope you...

OK - I LOVE my 225 Tournament - everything about it - except the following item: The Yamaha 250 motor's "nose cone" sits about 3" into the water when the engine is in the UP position. Also the scuppers are about halfway submerged. The result is barnacles and growth on both that get...

We picked up our new 225 Tournament from Catalano on Saturday and drove it home to Norwalk. IT WAS BLOWIN' STINK. I probably should've postponed, but the dealer was booked next weekend and I just couldn't stand to wait. The ride home was right into the wind (better than on the beam) and...

I just bought a Grady White 225 Tournament dual console for daytrips with the kids and friends. I was planning to get a 12 volt blender for "boat drinks" and general foolishness. I've read some reviews that they are not so great, and a number of folks recommended getting an inverter and using...

Anybody know the right size plow anchor for a 22 foot boat? Thanks!

So the 225 that we bought has an anchor locker which is set up for a Danforth anchor... which is fine. I would like to also have a plow anchor like a Lewmar in the boat. We like to drop the bow anchor and then back into a beach. We then jam a stern anchor into the beach to hold us in...

I finaly got to see our new Tournament 225 with a camera in hand... I am going to try to post some pictures for all of those folks who, like me, are shopping for a similar boat and can't get enough info from the Grady website... Here goes... if the first photo works I will try some others.

Does anyone have this motor on this boat? I just bought a new '07 for spring delivery. I am still worried that with the 250 the stern may ride low. Are the scuppers submerged? How high above the waterline is the swim platform bracket? Is the nose cone in front of the prop in the water all...