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Greetings, It's winter and I have been day dreaming on Boat Trader . I have owned my 228 now since 2009. She has taken me everywhere from the mountain lakes to the Dry Tortugas and Bahamas. It truly is a great little boat. I have long wanted a 28 to 33. In so many ways its not practical. I...

On boat windshield glass? I have used vinegar before. Anyone else have a special product or recipe ?

Buy a new boat your same size or trade up ? I have a 228 ..I actually enjoy her and have had the boat new since 2009. I keep wanting a Sailfish,Marlin or Express 305 /330 . That new Adventure 218 is really nice especially with the 8.5 foot beam . it's just a few inches shorter when you look...

HI y'all: I am in the Florida Keys visiting friends and staying at their canal front home . Yesterday we were preparing to go offshore when I noticed a lot of water coming from my forward bilge pump. I have never seen water come out of my forward bilge . So, I inspect the bilge and find it...

Hey Y'all, I have not posted in a while . It's been busy in my life but I wanted to share a story and it's somewhat embarrassing. This fall I was taking my boat out of Fontana for the winter. Halfway back to the ramp the boat just died. Now those unfamiliar with Fontana Lake in the NC Smoky...

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Greetings Guys. I spent the afternoon and into the evening today compounding polishing and waxing the front half of the boat topsides only. I used 3M marine rubbing compound, 3M Finesse it2, and waxed with Collinites 925. This is my first legitimate compound and polish job since owning a...

Hey Y'all,. I bought a cordless DeWalt XR 5 inch random orbital buffer . I have a bunch of DeWalt 20 V XR tools so what the heck. My struggle here is finding pads. The buffer came with 5 inch disc with the hook side of Velcro on it. I am missing something here , but where do I find say 5-6...

I enjoy reading here because most of us are passionate about our boats, we either love em or hate em. . Back in the day when I was in middle school Grady White invented the Walk Around style boat and it catapulted them in the industry. At one point the 228 was their flagship craft and Grady...

Hey Y'all, My youngest turned 21 Sunday. On Saturday my friend Coconut took us out bottom fishing on his 330 ..Great boat and even better person. Caught a bunch of the rare and elusive red snapper . . Sunday we splashed the 228 and ran from Flager Beach to St. Augustine on the ICW to the...

Saturday my friend Coconut took us out on his Express 330 out of Ponce Inlet . It was blowing strong so trolling for dolphin was out. We went bottom.fishing and he put us on a lot of fish..we caught a ridiculous amount of the endangered red snapper , some sea Robbins , a grouper and some other...

Hey Guys, I repowered in 17 and yes 5 years later I have not got the boat dialed in to what I think it should be. Mid Carolina mounted the motor on the top hole on the bracket and top on the motor. I ran it for 2 seasons like this. Then KY suggested moving it at least one hole on the motor ...

From Grady White and I got one in the mail today. . It's a t shirt and on the back is a twin engine Freedom of sorts . It just hit me a moment ago . It hit me that the handful of Grady shirts I have had over the years if there was a boat on them it was their iconic invention , the walk around...

I have the new speakers , the Fusion Apollo hideaway system and new speaker cable. I want to add XM to the system and I want to buy the Garmin XM weather puck combo deal. So, the question is this. When I connect the weather receiver to the 942 XS Plus and then connect the Fusion head unit...

So I can't believe it's been 5 years this summer since repowered with that sweet 4.2 liter F250. My warranty expires in July and Yamaha says I can extend it for $1,500 for another year.. What would you do ? The motor has like 230 hours on it .

Hey Guys, I am going update my audio system on my 228. I am going with a Fusion head unit and likely JL speakers like you see on wake boats attached to the hardtop tubes. I am thinking of adding a single 10 inch sub for enriched low frequency not for a sambar party . . I just don't know...

I count myself fortunate. I am getting ready to go back to the Keys for a 2 Week adventure next week. I went back and forth on ordering my trailer with one or two spares. I ordered with one then decided to get a second. Called Owens and voila it appeared like magic . Now I have two spares and...

So, I find myself checking out those boat zone videos and Haulover Inlet videos when they pop up in my feed. Do any of you all watch that stuff? one thing I noticed in the Boat Zone Miami River stuff is the ridiculous amount of dangerous Tom foolery some of the ladies do on the bow of the...

Fontana Lake

I just graduated from the KY Grady School of Bilge Maintenance and Typewriter Repair. I replumbed my live well hoses, washdown hoses, serviced my sticky float switch and installed a new washdown pump. I also zip tied some cables and hoses ,put up new nylon clamps and such. I also washed the...