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Thanks for the Likes and the comments. My wife is the one to "Make Lemonade" as it were. Its her vacation time and she is not to be denied. Tuesday. We get to enjoy the breakfast spread at Tarpon Lodge before taking on the several-mile channel back out to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway...

Monday. We take a leisurely breakfast and make our way to Ingman Marine with some trepidation. Mike has the starboard engine still apart. On a nearby workbench is a pile of crud. I realize the engine is apart for my benefit. Mike explains: "Some of the the cooling passages were clogged with...

Sunday. Becky wants to see Sanibel Island as we make our way back north. While we're there, I'd like to check out Sanibel Marina to see if it is up and running and might be a good jumping off place for our next run. Sanibel Light has a bit less sand around than Becky remembers from family trips...

Day 3. Saturday. We continue with our planned itinerary except by rental car. We make our way down to Everglades City, a portion of Florida I have never seen despite living here for about 45 years. The Rod and Gun Club is another historic building, the main house being built in 1926. If you go...

Ed: Great that you found a direct replacement. But foamed in!? I'm not sure my body would be happy tackling that!

Ed: So how much do you like your refrigerator? ;) . You're not kidding about that being a tight spot. Speaking from my 2007, the fridge comes out pretty easily. I recall there being trim pieces at the top and bottom to remove. After that, it's pulling the fridge by each side in turn, bit by...

Day 2 Continued. To get right to the point, we never made it to Tarpon Lodge on Pine Island this day, at least not by boat. We did find Ingman Marine and the service department was operating out of a cramped FEMA trailer as they said, but they did, very kindly, have spare ignition keys ready...

Day 2. From Sarasota Bay to Pine Island. +60 miles. A beautiful run through what I consider my home-town area. Cruising south through Little Sarasota Bay. Siesta Key is on our right and Osprey is on our left. As a kid boating in this area, the Blackburn Point Swing Bridge was a relic then...

Actually, My wife and I just completed this two-week loop, but I did not get the opportunity to post to this forum along the way. So here goes in arrears. Intent was to go from our home in West Palm Beach and cross the state via Lake Okeechobee and associated waterways. My wife, who usually...

A little off target here. We installed a 6500 btu Mermaid Air into our 2007 Sailfish. The boat did not come with air from the factory. Mermaid Marine is based in Ft. Myers, FL and is known for customer support after the sale and easy installation. I very much found both to be true. We just...

I have installed a new Mermaid Marine AC in my 2007 Sailfish that did not come with AC from the factory. That may or may not be as hard as replacing yours depending on where it is and if the connection points (hoses, clamps, filters, wires, etc) are still in fair shape. So where is your AC unit...

A 22' battlewagon! Nice work. Keep sharing your ideas, please.

Look on eBay as well. This seller sells direct Grady replacements at unreasonably high prices. Bear in mind that these stand pipes came in various heights...

We owned a 258 Journey for ten years. The first five she was powered with the 3.4L Yamaha F250, which I was happy with. Then we put on the 4.2L F300 when it came out. That was the perfect engine for the 258 - if you're okay with a single engine, as I was for this boat. The F300 made a...

I've used Tony Stewart about a dozen times. Farthest was FL to MI. He is licensed and insured. He uses his truck and he has several trailers. Tony's number is 561.253.4007. He has always taken good care of my boat.

Freddy: Welcome to the Forum. That's a nicely laid-out Grady. I'd be interested to hear your assessment after a few weeks of running her. Rob

Good idea if you just want to give AC a trial run before you spend a bunch of money and effort on it. I did this very thing for the first vacation trip in our Sailfish. Fortunately, we had a 6" inspection plate in the aft berth that I could tie the AC's exhaust hose into. By removing another...

Along those same thoughts of needing a strainer, I agree. Rather than attempt to add to the bottom of the seacock, I opted to put a high-volume, high quality strainer/filter in-line between the seacock and the water pump. That way I can get at whatever gunk comes through. I thought the strainer...

An alternate suggestion: If you're willing to give up the overboard discharge from the waste tank (but keep deck pump out), you could use that seacock as your dedicated cooling water and only open the seacock when you run the AC. The factory option usually ran a hose all the back to the bilge...

I believe that aluminum bracing tieing the transom to the stringers has been standard issue for most, if not all Gradys for many years. I recall that my 1995 208 had some version of it.