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Great looking boat! Always fun to hear a story similar to mine about buying a boat and then driving her back across the country. I bought mine in October of 2021 back in Maryland, flew out, bought the boat, rented a U-Haul truck and trailered her back 3,009 miles across the country to Seattle...

As mentioned before in my post #16, here's the installation instructions for my particular transducer, of which it is a Garmin GT 56UHD and it says the transducer should extend .125" below a fiberglass hull. I'd look up your transducer part number, get the instructions for it to make sure...

Good looking boat! I might be a bit biased though. Good luck with the purchase and owning of it.

Congrats! Post a few pictures when you get a chance to.

I was going to say... I think he's a bit high at $35k. Might even still be a bit high dropping it down to $25k. I checked BT, Boats.com, Yacht World and Craigslist and I don't see the boat on any of those sites. I imagine he's going to be hard pressed to sell the boat just by people driving by...

luckydude put some oversized trim tabs on his 228 Seafarer and really seems to like them. I personally have I believe they're 9"x12" tabs on my boat and I don't really ever use them as I do 99% of my fishing in protected waters. If I was on the open ocean in less than favorable elements and...

If I can only choose between one of those two boats, I'd definitely go with boat number one. The first boat is $5k more, but you say the second one needs $7k in repairs, which will put you at $25k total at the very minimum for the second boat. Are you looking specifically for a 226 Seafarer or...

I replied with this comment in the other post... but I'd go slightly bigger and get a 225 Tournament/Freedom, considering you just had a 23' Proline walkaround. I've got a GW 228 Seafarer and it's quite easy to launch/retrieve/fish/captain/etc by myself. I think going from a 23' walkaround like...

I'd go slightly bigger with the 225 Tournament/Freedom considering you just had a 23' Proline walkaround. I've got a GW 228 Seafarer and it's quite easy to launch/retrieve/fish/captain/etc by myself. I think going from a 23' walkaround like you did, down to a 205 DC Grady White would leave a bit...

Per the ad on Boat Trader, it says the outboards have 1,044 hours on them. I personally wouldn't want a hull of that age, especially as mentioned before because it is the SeaV1 hull, and not the newer and more desirable SeaV2 hull. I also don't really need a 232 Gulfstream with twin motors on it...

I like Garmin and will likely always run Garmin electronics at this point. When I first bought my boat, it came with a basic older 7' touchscreen Garmin unit that went belly up on me when I did a software/maps update. It was from around 2010-2013, so it was anywhere from 10-12 years old at the...

Probably going to have to have one made specifically for it, unless you can get really lucky with finding one on eBay, Craigslist or something similar. Though, I don't imagine that's likely to happen. You could also check with your local GW dealer and see what they have to say, as the 208...

I'm not sure which transducer you're using, but this is the one that I purchased for my 2004 GW 228 Seafarer, as well as the instructions that came along with it. I imagine the instructions are probably pretty similar for whatever model you have, and here is also a video showing them mount the...

I would disagree on the radar itself being above $2k. You can get a basic Garmin radar for around $1,500 or less if you look around online, or they've even got them on clearance sites for $1,100-$1,200. You could also get a bare bones fish finder for less than $200, or the cheapest current...

A few things here... I think you're on the right track with the surveyor bit, as I always recommend anyone get a surveyor before purchasing a higher dollar item like a boat, car, house and so forth. Second, a 1990 model year is going to be the older SeaV1 hull as opposed to the newer, and imo...

That's unfortunate. I'd try to take it to small claims court and get your money back if possible. Or, if the transaction was done digitally through Venmo, PayPal a credit card or something similar, I'd obviously try and dispute the charges. I would also shop around on the east coast but I avoid...

Sounds as though you're gravely mistaken, considering the OP's recent update.

$17k for a 1999 Grady White 272 Sailfish with twin outboards and a trailer that runs in the PNW? That's either a scam, as that boat in that condition is worth at least double that, if not more.

I guess we'll have to wait and see if the OP comes back and clarifies anything. It's going to be generalizing and speculation until that point. I agree with you in that I don't believe you're likely going to know with 100% certainty about much of anything based off of a couple pictures until...

That could be a pretty broad assumption considering we don't know the entire story here and until the OP confirms, the majority of this is likely to be generalizing as well as speculation. If the seller was honest about the issues or simply didn't know about them, then that would be one thing...