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I no longer need mine since I repowered with a Honda. Free if you need it. Just cover shipping.

I removed the port-side swim platform off of my 226 in order to replace some of the stainless hardware that had started to weep rust. I used to be able to remember exactly how things looked so that I could easily reassemble everything. But I seem to have lost that ability. I should have taken...

They moved up my TAVR procedure at Mayo to last Monday. Everything went well and I ended up with a bovine valve. We flew home on Friday and I'm feeling much better than I have for years. My legs are still a little weak from doing nothing for a couple of months, but I should be ready to get...

Not my engine, my heart. I'm going to Mayo Clinic on Wednesday for an aortic valve replacement. They won't know whether it will be open heart or via catheter until they finish 5 days of workup that starts on Thursday. The procedure is scheduled for Sept. 3. We will have to stay in MN the...

A guy on a local Facebook fishing group that I follow posted this picture. He said that it was the guy ahead of him at the ramp. The guy told him that he just put the motor on 2 days ago and "It just fell off". That's all I know about the story, but it must have happened while the guy was...

With red snapper, gag grouper, amberjack, and triggerfish seasons all closed, we headed offshore to harvest some black seabass and mangrove snapper. The seabass down here are smaller than the ones up North and on the Atlantic side, but they are usually very abundant in 50-70 ft of water when the...

I just picked up a pair of SS scupper drains from Marine Town USA, which is local to me. They supply Grady with a lot of SS parts such as drains, scuppers, and hinges. They used to be strictly business to business, but they told me that they now are willing to sell retail and take credit card...

Until recently switching to composite, GW had been using Greenwood XL in place of marine plywood since the late 90's. There have been fewer reports of rotted transoms since then. Here is an interesting post from THT where a builder describes what Greenwood is...

Ran out to 75 ' on Friday (50+ miles) and got a 4 person limit of red snapper and 3 nice red grouper. It's nice to see the red grouper coming back in our area since everything from 40' out to the Middle Grounds was wiped out by red tide in 2014.

I finally got tired of my original F250 making oil so I went ahead and turned it into a brand new 2019 BF250. Now I hope I can finally troll without changing the oil every 20 hr. It's going to take a while to get used to that big silver thing back there. I also added a Bob's Machine Shop...

I may repower this year and I'm thinking of adding a manual jack plate. The idea is to get the engine away from the stupid aluminum bang plate (which I will either replace or glass over), allow the engine height to be precisely adjusted, and to position the lower unit behind my side scan...

I need to replace the wiper motor on my 226. This was a piece of cake on my older Gradys that had externally mounted wiper motors. But my 2008 has the wiper shaft going through the deck and the motor is located behind a cover on the inside of the cabin. Before I start taking things apart, has...

The metal reinforcement wire on my scupper drain hoses are rusting out and hoses are starting to leak. I called Grady and was told that they still use and recommend metal reinforced hosing for the scupper drains. I assume that this is some type of engine coolant hose. I can see this problem...

I have about given up on my transom mounted Humminbird side imaging transducer. The amount of weeds in my area make it almost impossible to use. The weeds get jammed into the transducer mount while running at speed and often the only way to get them off is to go overboard. So I'm considering an...

I'm sure that many of you Northwest guys have Scotties on your boats. I'm interested in putting a pair on my 226. I found that the standard mount doesn't clear the edge of the narrow gunwale by enough to allow the riggers to be tilted up completely. So it looks like I'm going to need to use...

I have no T top on my 226 and I'm not happy with the location of my radio in the instrument box. I have a wide fish finder, so the only way that a radio will fit in the box is mounted turned on its side. This doesn't let me read the front panel of the radio without almost sticking my head in the...

I put my new (2008 leftover) 226 in the water for the first time this weekend and found that the boat veered from side to side when off plane and listed to port when up on step. The steering is harder turning to port. I spoke with a guy with a 2007 226 and he told me that he had the exact same...

I just picked up a brand new left over 2008 226 Seafarer that I am rigging out myself. The boat will be used for fishing and I don't need anything that can hold blood and gore. I would like to remove the stern seat backs and possibly the side bolster cushions. While I think that I have...

I'm a former Grady owner (204C and 226). My wife has finally convinced me that I'm too old not to own the boat that I really want. We sold our 226 back in 1990 when we moved away from Florida. Now that we're back, I want to become whole again. :wink: I am trying to decide between the 226 and...