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That fridge is pretty small. I've been using one of my insulated compartments for ice and drinks.

Big big bluegrass festival all the past weekend at Sandy Point state park. It's about a 15 minute ride from where I live south of Annapolis so I threw some provisions on the boat and dropped the hook just off shore there. We enjoyed the tunes from the water for the afternoon and ran back home...

I got the impression it was an incentive to move the rest of the 2024 inventory.

The other consideration might be warranty extensions. When I bought my new 2024 Freedom 275 in July Yamaha was including a warranty out to 5 years on the engines that would not be available if I waited for the 2025. They also discounted the 2024 that had on the floor and it was what I wanted...

I've heard a rumor that GW might discontinue the 255 since there's not a huge difference between a 235 and a 275 cockpit. Looking at the two boats on the showroom floor there's definitely a roomier feel on the 275 vs 235 (big not like gee whiz roomier) but I haven't seen a 255 to compare. I...

I'm thinking even if it fits that it's the right solution for that boat. Unlimited budget or not, no one likes just wasting money and the 8600xsv units are an excellent solution leaving money for a nice 24" Garmin radar and other toys. Here's the panel of my Freedom 275 with a Garmin 8616xsv...

I recently had my 20 hour service performed at Tri-State in Deale and it couldn't have gone smoother. I had a short punch list which they happily resolved but for one thing: my wet compass had failed and another one had to be ordered. A couple of days after bringing the boat back home they...

Well, as a new GW owner, it sure looks to me like there's an app. It's all over their web site and instructional videos still which resulted in me running out to Costco and picking up a cheap iPad for the boat. Kinda irresponsible for them to discontinue the app but leave all that fancy feel...

I ended up downloading all the documentation from GW that was packaged specific for my boat and put it on an iPad that I keep on the boat. If there's an actual app, I can't find it anywhere but the Captain Grady web page is pretty useful.

I'm a new Grady White owner and I keep running across references to an iPad app called Captain Grady that I can't find anywhere on the Apple App Store. There's a web site with that name but no app that I can find. What am I missing?

They're saying that in Annapolis we've had two of the three worst storm surge events ever recorded where city dock businesses were flooded and the mayor declared a state of emergency. Based upon my experience leaving the boat on the lift during this most recent event, I'm thinking it'll be fine...

Tri-State has been great!

I've been out pretty regularly getting familiar with the boat and systems and already putting it to some good use - family dinner out at Cantlers for some Jumbos

I got my installation surge tested when the remnants of Debbie came through the Chesapeake and created a bit over 4' of surge above high tide. I decided the forecasted surge wasn't enough to warrant removing and relocating it and left it on the dock. It crested about 3" up on the dock box...

I can sync the engines with the levers reasonably together. The slight discrepancy is when operating it in single lever mode.

I'm new to owning a boat with this digital steering system and using the HelmMaster joy stick so from that perspective, I've been out practicing with the system and it's not quite doing what I think it should be doing. For example, with all motion stopped and the boat still in the water, moving...

OK, I found the selection on the 8616 to turn off all transducers. Good to know and thanks for the tip.

I have a transom mounted GT56 transducer that I'm told needs to be in the water to keep it cool when it's on. It's my understanding that it can be turned off through the Garmin MFD but I drop the boat so that it's wet when I'm messing around with the nav electronics on my boat.

I downloaded the version 36.0 update on my desktop and put it on the SD card - way faster than trying to get it with my cell phone. I put the card in the adapter and then proceeded with the update from Active Captain. Worked like a charm, once I had a proper SD card.

The unit installed in my boat is the 8616xsv unit that comes with Navionics+ installed. Still it would have been nice to have included a 32G SD card with the delivery. They're only about $12 and it would have saved me some hassle when my GPSMAP told me it needed an update.