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I never thought I wanted auto pilot until a buddy told me how he uses it. He has it on his kicker only and when he gets a salmon he just has the AP do a figure 8 over where the fish was found, super easy to fish an area that way. I've been thinking about adding the seastar connector so both...

BTW, I went with Suzuki for my kicker even though the main engine is Yamaha. Yeah, the colors don't match, shrug. I picked Suzuki because they are fuel injected and the Yamaha 9.9 is not. Also, I believe Suzuki claims this is a high thrust motor, 4 blade prop. It won't move my 228 more than...

If you mean the power tilt vs manual tilt, my previous boat was manual, my current boat is power tilt. Power tilt is what you want unless you are some fit 20 something dude and even then, power tilt is really nice. Weighs a little more, costs a little more, worth it. If you mean some bracket...

Just curious, what MPG do you get with those 200s? 1ish? I get about 1.5-2.3 depending on conditions. On a nice ocean, I can come it at 35mph getting over 2mpg. Smaller boat, single 250.

I have the next size down, the 228, so smaller boat. All I can do is tell you what I know and you can try and extrapolate to your boat. My boat, without engine/gas/water/gear is 76% of the weight of yours. Yours is also wider and longer. Grady offered the 228 with either the 250 or the 300...

Amen to that. It's so easy to get mad about stuff but that just hurts you, you want those guys to be happy to see you. I know, you spent $300K and they should be kissing your butt but pizza and beer and they'll be happy to help you.

This. When Grady told me they were discontinuing the 228 I said that sucks because I was thinking of buying another one for my kids. Once you go Grady, if you are like me, it's nothing but Grady in my future. My boat, once we got the initial kinks worked out, has been rock solid and a joy to...

I bought new last year and had a bumpy start with my dealer. I'm not gonna make you happy but my advice is to work with your dealer, you want them to be responsive when you have warranty issues. You could back and politely ask why it is 3 weeks and is there any amount of beer that would move...

It's not just me, read this thread and lots of people prefer engine over tabs. https://www.greatgrady.com/threads/tips-for-a-following-sea-on-265-express.32573/ But I get it, that doesn't work for some boats.

I think if trimming the engine works, it is less complicated. It works for me but clearly not for everyone.

All I'm doing is exactly what Grady says to do. And I came to it independently. Shrug, works for me.

I think my boat must be weird. I can move the bow up and down about 3 feet with absolutely no trim tabs in the mix. I've never wanted to push the bow down more than I can with the engine. I use the tabs but only to correct list. I basically do what the techy guy from Grady says to do when...

This is good advice. I think that the people who want you to add tabs in are people with multiple engines on the back of their boat. So they are stern heavy enough that just trimming the engines forward may not get your boat to the sweet spot (which I agree, the seavee 2 hull seems to want to...

The other difference you'll find is that the boat slams you way less in waves.

I don't think that's doable because the forward seating would be right in your line of sight forward.

The wider the boat the more it hurts when you smack the water, or so I've been told.

I've looked at moving up by you, Seattle or maybe the San Juans or Vancouver Island. The upside is the island protects all that water, I've seen 1@2, 2@3, crazy flat ocean. I've also seen cold, cold, cold. Way more cold than when we fish in the winter down here. The 228 is the perfect boat...

I can't help you with that, I wish I could but my 228 is different, has the swim platform, you mount there. If there is anything I can help with I will but I have a different boat.

I did one on your bigger brother, the 228. Don't have advice on how to do it on your boat but here is a tidbit. Grady wanted me to install the motor on the port side. On my boat, the port side is already weighted down with the batteries. I went against their advice and put it on the...

So I asked if they were moving away from walk arounds and here is what Gwen said: On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 01:07:35PM +0000, Gwen Edwards wrote: No, we are not moving away from the walkarounds. We decided to drop the 228 because it was not selling as much as other boats in our line. It...