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Exactly... while it is great for you and your needs, I simply don't need nor care to have a pilothouse on my boat, as it's an added expense that I'd never utilize and/or potentially gain the money back from. As stated in my comment before, as well as your personal message... "At the end of the...

I'm glad that you like the pilothouse you added to your boat. I've honestly never had an issue with the standard hardtop, nor have I had an issue with visibility or clutter... other than the innermost armrests snagging a shirt when trying to walk by. Though, those are easily remedied by removing...

This thread is from 2008 and is 16 years old now at this point, of which I'm not even sure if the OP is still a member since it doesn't show when he was last on the GG forums here. Though it does appear that his latest posting was back in 2011. That, as well as every other member that posted on...

Those are indeed the older SeaV1 hulls... I believe 1992 was the first year of the SeaV2 hull for a 22' Grady White. This is just me and my personal opinion, but I'm not a fan of the 1997 and older models as well as the pilothouse on a Grady White. I think they look great on certain boats, most...

My initial "gut feeling" is the $35k range. I think the two biggest potential drawbacks would be the age of the boat as well as the custom pilothouse. I think the age of the hull is going to bring down the price a bit and I imagine having a non stock looking pilothouse on the boat is potentially...

Admittedly no expert here... maybe someone took a DIY approach to redoing the non-skid flooring and that's the resulting product/outcome?

My previous boat was a 21' Arima, of which I was on the Arima owner's forum for quite sometime before I ended up selling that boat. During that time I was on there, I remember the story of a guy that bought a brand new roller trailer for his boat. As he was backing it in at the boat launch, he...

I’ve owned both and prefer bunks as well. I also have a 228 Seafarer.

Lol what in the world are you talking about? I was referring to the OP’s question as well as I was talking about his boat, nothing to do with you or your boat. I also have no idea as to what you’re referring to with your comment of fixing items on a car when we’re discussing whether the OP...

I imagine that your boat is the one in your profile picture and considering it's a two stroke motor, I am guessing that it's a late 1990's to early 2000's boat? Either way, per the brochure it says that the 248/258 Voyager/Journey didn't get air conditioning as an option until the year 2009. It...

I don't have any personal experience with owning a boat that had ETEC motors on them but I do have some experience outside of that. First would be a buddy's boat that has twin ETEC's on it, which they're definitely a bit noisier and smell worse than my Yamaha F225. The other "experience" that I...

As Sdfish mentioned above, it's not too terribly difficult to do the repairs and repaint yourself if you have a decent amount of knowledge with regards to general mechanic type of stuff and/or just fixing things. I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of videos on YouTube that you could...

Another option... https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2005-grady-white-adventure-208-9410373/

I mean in theory, if the OP really wanted to, he could always throw twin 300's on his boat and call it a day. They're lighter than his current outboards and would likely work, though I don't imagine the OP needs to hit 65-70 mph either.

The OP stated that his options locally were either 300's, or 200's and nothing in between, which is I believe the reason why he was considering the 300's as they weren't too much more in terms of pricing than the 200's. He also stated in his first comment that he realizes his boat has a maximum...

I would disagree, as the OP's boat weighs around 2k lbs less than a 271 Canyon and has a greater horsepower to weight ratio than it does, yet he can for some reason only hit 38 knots when the Canyon can hit over 56 mph? I'd say that's indicative of a problem there, as well as at the time I...

I made a post a few years back with a few "updates" that I had suggested, which promptly got shut down rather quickly, aka almost as soon as I made the post. I agree to an extent with a few things, especially with regards to uploading pictures, different categories of the forum, the search...

I'd post the question in the general discussion portion of the forum as you're likely going to get way more hits than you will on here. That being said, I've got two Scotty downriggers that I used Burnewiin brand mounts with and I love the outcome. Imo, the cheap black plastic Scotty downrigger...

Well yeah, I understand that. What I was trying to convey was that if a much larger, wider, heavier 271 Canyon can go almost 60 mph with twin 300's on it, then I think that would be massively overkill for the OP's 273 Chase... who admittedly likes cruising in the low 30's mph range and doesn't...

Where are you located? Also, per Grady White the top speed of your boat with twin F200's on it is 46.3 mph at 6,100 rpm, and with a cruising speed of 27.3 mph at 3,500 rpm. Of course, those numbers are on a test boat and are going to likely be a bit "optimistic" but, they should be relatively...