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I'd consider increasing your budget by a few grand and maybe look into one of these boats... https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2009-grady-white-tournament-225-9126834/ https://www.boattrader.com/boat/2008-grady-white-225-tournament-9050664/

Hard to tell what is what from a couple of pictures, especially the second which looks like it's from 15'-20' away. That being said, the boat looks like it's definitely been through a few hands before, and especially a few that didn't know what they were doing. The amount of sealant smeared all...

Anything of decent size with the blackmouth's or just the typical 7-8 lb cookie cutters?

That sounds rather extreme. I've lived in the area my entire life, so I'm "used to it" by now. Even still, if the weather is mediocre at best and there aren't any fish running, it doesn't make sense to have my boat in the water. I'm sure there are probably some king salmon running before early...

The Facebook group is private, of which I'm not a member. So, what are the details of the bracketed GW with the bad transom?

Doing a reverse Google image search is a glorious thing lol. And sadly, I imagine they must be successful with their scams at least some of the time in order to continue doing it. I'm betting they do like what was done here where they ask for oh idk a few hundred dollars on up to a few thousand...

I found the ad from a few years back on THT that RobertWills was stealing these pictures from, asking price at the time was $72.5k. https://www.thehulltruth.com/boats-sale/1077138-2014-grady-white-freedom-225-hardtop-f300-w-warranty-new-trailer.html

Now now, let's hear him out... maybe there are actually some palm trees in Pittsburgh? :D

Total scam... "Owner" claims to be in Pittsburgh, PA and the boat is supposedly in Charleston, SC... which is almost 700 miles apart. The price is also about half of what they should be selling for, broken English, using PayPal/Zelle or other third party apps for payment, etc. "Owner" has been...

Kind of odd that one boat would do it and not the other. I figured you were going to say you bought the boat in a different part of the country, or one was stored indoors vs the other being outdoors. I'd post a picture or two when you get a chance. I also hear quite a bit about "post-covid...

You guys are lucky and I'm quite jealous. Around here, crabbing usually opens up July 1st and then the king salmon season is usually around mid July. There are a few things that you can do during the winter or early spring like winter black mouth fishing, winter crabbing and halibut fishing in...

I think you answered you own question in your first post... "My hope is that the bracketed transoms will last longer and the boat will have some value when I go and sell it." of which a little bit of research before drilling could've saved you some of the hassle. I guess it's mostly water under...

Where did you buy the previous boat from?

I guess my thoughts on the matter would be that I personally would've gotten a moisture meter and used that instead, which would've been non-invasive , and would've given you a decent idea as to the overall condition of the hull. Obviously moisture meters have their limitations, especially on...

Unless there's a way for the water to come in like a broken/cracked or missing bang cap, damage and cracks at or below the waterline, etc... there shouldn't be any reason why you'd have water intrusion in the stern of your boat. Especially on a 228 Seafarer which yes as mentioned, has the...

There's also a couple of companies out there that make custom sized bow pulpit's to your specifications, though I imagine those are likely pretty expensive. Here is one such company, of which there are several others out there if you type in "custom bow pulpit" on Google...

Here's a company that makes a couple of different designs, as well as a vendor on eBay, though they're showing late April in regards to shipping dates. I doubt they'll be the exact same specs, but might be close enough? https://www.marinefiberglassdirect.com/collections/miscellaneous...

I always start in the back and work my way forward with "closing up" the boat. I'll put the boat on the buoy, put the canvas cover on the outboard, tilt it up, lock it, turn off the batteries, pull the downriggers and store them in the cabin as well as any and all fishing gear, lock the cabin as...

There's two currently on Yacht World right now, have you seen those? https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2006-grady--white-seafarer-226-9267066/ https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2007-grady--white-226-seafarer-8911567/

I see a lot of guys running 9"x12" trim tabs on 21'-22' boats and that will probably do you just fine, as well as I wouldn't want to go any smaller than that. Or as Lucky mentioned, you could always go as big as possible and likely see a substantial improvement on top of that.