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GG is a 1000x better than the hull truth. My experience here in the last few months has been nothing but awesome because of the people here. Yeah, I did my part by not showing up pretending I know more than I know, I'm new to running a boat and I'm not shy about letting people know that. I...

I like this forum and my local one, Coastside. I'm all hot and bothered about my new 228 so I tend to hang here mostly, but pop over to coastside for fish reports. Finding me on Facebook is about as likely as me selling my 228 for $1. Not gonna happen, not now, not ever. Facebook is full of...

I was thinking more a can with a stick tie wrapped/taped to the side. Stick it through the hole and then under where you are drilling. Tricky. Gas has to be hot to vaporize and it needs to be a vapor to explode. That's what a carb does, turns it into a mist and mixes it with air. I may just...

The engineer in me is trying to imagine some way to get something in there to catch the shavings. And also you have the water separator and the fuel filter, but still, shavings in gas kinda bugs me. So I would get some 55 gallon drums, the steel ones, make sure whatever was in there before is...

They are on all the time when we are on the water. Though I read about a coast guard rescue, I think on THT, and they made the point that bright orange is way easier to spot. So I may switch them out. The brand new boat makes me more casual than I should be, the ocean will spank me if I get...

I'm thinking about run up to Franklin point for ling and rockies this Saturday, wait, 4@10 Sunday so I'm thinking Sunday. Looks like 4 feet at 9 seconds, not flat but not bad. Shannon's boat will eat that up. My last 2 boat launch got me my favorite picture...

I'm going to just make a tow harness. Seems easy and useful. I'll probably do clips even though a bowline knot would work fine for a day with the kids, clips would be better if you were setting up to tow a boat in. Though as I'm thinking about it, I can tie a bowline in not much more time...

My boat is like yours, pump fore and aft.. I was thinking an extra pump for safety, not for quicker pumping out. I'll chew on it, I've got a brand new boat, everything works now, but safety is a concern. That said, the only way water gets into my bilge, if everything is working, is the 2 rear...

Am I the only guy that looked and saw no pictures? I run Linux, not windows or macos so maybe that's it.

So I'm a n00b, I tend to go by Mr Idiot because I have lots to learn. But using raw, aka salt, water is not gonna work. Or are you on fresh water? Seems like too big of a boat to be on fresh but maybe Great Lakes? Whatever, if you are on salt water, that will not work to flush your engine...

It is a seller's market right now. We're all stuck at home and boating is perhaps one of the safest things we can do in this COVID mess. I looked at the 330 express on Grady's website today. One heck of a boat. Out of my league but if you can get and run one, go you!

Hey OP, Not sure what the issue is that you are having, but here is something I have learned. This was on my previous boat, a Triumph but someone said they are all like this. The holes are not evenly spaced, there is only one way they go back together. In the Triumph, the wires were at (I...

OK, THT, man I hate that forum, full of salty jerks that can't seem to realize that it is OK to ask a question. You guys are better. So everyone hated on the idea of attaching to the hardtop. And they weren't shy about implying I was stupid to ask. I dunno, seems like a reasonable thing to...

I'm wondering the same thing for my 228. I'll bet anything GW says you shouldn't do that, if they say yes and something happens, you have grounds to get them to fix it. My guess is we have to find people who have done it and learn from them. I'm not a structural engineer, I am an engineer...

Believe me, I wanted bigger. I had the dealer bring up the trailer I would use for a bigger boat, there is absolutely zero chance I could get it home. And I want to get it home, it's easier to clean and maintain when I have all my stuff right here. I didn't want to do bottom paint and spend...

LOL, we've lost some as well. I had a nice vermillion to the surface and lost it, happened twice in fact. And recently we've been after halibut and Dylan and I needed to up our netting game, lost two legal ones at the surface. We've gotten better, I've netted a few by myself, I think I have...

You'll get there and soon. That boat needs to be trimmed where it is happy. It makes a huge difference ask Mr Idiot here how he knows (first outing not trimmed smashing into every swell). There are people here and elsewhere that say you have to pick your days. That boat is happy in 2-3 foot...

I was gonna punt on the through hull. I will plumb it into the existing tubing. That is not as safe as separate path but my boat is brand new and I've got at most 5 years of fishing. If I'm here 10 years from now, still fishing, I'll be stunned. And you can tell me I told you so. I think...

Not trying to argue, trying to learn. My previous boat had a manual that got stuck on and ran down my battery. Seems like you can't win. I think the Grady will be far less likely to have that sort of problem because almost everything drains to the outside, not via the bilge. That means less...

Adding a pump is on my list. And yeah, I'll run duplicate wiring, having two pumps on the same wires seems, um, not the best. When you say electronic, I'm guessing it has a sensor? That seems like it would work in more cases than a float, a float can get gunk in there and jam. Though with the...