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I have an A78 on my skiff that started doing the same thing. The cause was a weak battery that needed to be replaced. The voltage would drop to 9V when the engine was cranked. The battery was still strong enough to start the engine, but it failed a load test. Now with a fresh battery, the...

Instead of the keel following a straight line from stern to stem, the middle part of the hull bends slightly upward. This can happen during the molding process or form over time if the hull is stored out of the water without proper support. A little bit of a bend can cause the bow to dig in no...

I'm surprised that nobody has suggested this, but you could have a hook in your hull. It shouldn't affect how the boat sits at rest unless it is very severe. But it can make a dry riding hull like the 226 ride wet. My old 204C had a hook in the hull that I never got corrected. It came that...

You Americans and your trucks. In a land where our ”trucks” don’t come in XL, XXL and XXXL I get by just fine towing my 228 behind my 2.7l diesel Land Rover LR3.;) I saw that when I was in New Zealand. Toyotas and Land Rovers do fine towing large boats as long as they have diesel engines...

Valvetect gas has stabilizer in it and is supposed to keep the fuel good for 1 year. It also has increased detergent. You would gain little benefit by adding RingFree or an additional stabilizer. Top Tier detergent road fuels probably have enough detergency that you won't get much more...

Ring free is not a fuel stabilizer. It is designed to reduce engine deposits only. Yamaha sells its own brand of fuel stabilizer, which is a different product. I've studied fuel additive chemistry since the mid-'70s and I can tell you that stabilizers are not rocket science. They contain...

You can see that the hull was wet slipped and you do have blisters. A lot of them. A few blisters are not too big a job to repair, but that hull looks like it would require a lot of work. I would not buy that boat. If you decide to repair blisters, here is a way to do it: Gelcoat blister repair

When I bought my boat, I asked the dealer who was a very experienced waterman, which model he would want to be in in a blow. He said the 226, no doubt. After test riding a bunch of 20-22' Gradys, including the 228 that KYGrady eventually bought. I understood what he was talking about. The 228...

Do your cockpit scuppers drain properly when the boat is at rest? If they do, you are fine.

You should be able to handle Pacific 5 footers with an 11 sec period OK. Unless wind waves are also a factor. With a following sea, you need to adjust your speed down to the point where the hull doesn't launch off the top of each wave. You want to be bow-up, so don't use any tab unless you...

If you are in deep water, the B60 will let your track bottom a lot deeper than your stock Garmin transducer when running at 50 kHz. At 200 kHz the B60 has a narrower cone angle which allows you to see small bottom structure details if that is important to you. Finally, the B60 at either fixed...

I do a lot worse steering on my own. I ran the numbers a few years back and my AP saved me 20% in fuel consumption on long offshore runs. Some APs like my Furuno have handheld remotes that let you dodge crab traps and then automatically put you back on course. But that doesn't work in my area...

I used to fish Tahoe quite a bit during the summer when Pyramid was closed. The macs were mostly small and don't taste very good compared to other lakes in the area. But there are millions of them. They also pretty much shut down after 9:00 AM except for the few overcast days you might have...

Your Garmin has only as a single transducer connection port as I recall. This will only let you connect one transducer at a time. Your B60 may or may not have the correct pin configuration for you Garmin. Just see if it fits or not. If it was originally connected to a different brand of fish...

I had a shock absorber seat in my Silverstreak when I lived out west. It was a Canadian boat that I had built when I spent a year living on Vancouver Island. It was not a full suspension seat like you see on many pilot house Pacific coast boats, but it did a good job. Full suspension seats...

You should have bought my F250. ;) It's still running strong for the new owner.

Replacing the arm was no biggy when I did it. But I don't remember the arm and blade that I used and I don't have the boat here to take a look.

They don't all come with water pressure sensors. I helped a guy put one into a 2019 F300 back in February. It had a bolt that needed to be removed and replaced with the sensor.

The Batteries Plus group 27 on sale now appears to be the Deka DP27. 650 cold cranking and 800 marine cranking amps with a reserve capacity of 150 min @ 25 amps. This a good dual purpose battery, but it doesn't meet the Yamaha spec for reserve capacity. The one that you want is the Deka 27M6...

It's a lot easier on my 226 than on a 228. No live well to remove.