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My hand written receipt looks like it says 34559. That did not include the pedestal. Give Grady White a call. They are very helpful.

Yep. What he said.

Yamaha came out with the 3.3 L F250 in 2005. So 2006 is the first year that you might find one on a Grady. You can get new arm rests from Grady, but you need to go through a dealer. They are made for Grady by Pompanette. I had to replace a whole seat. The price was ridiculous.

Don't see why you'd need to do that. The engine hasn't changed much since they first came out in the 80's. The weight is the same.

You usually burn a hole in the piston from running lean. You likely had either a broken ring or wrist pin. You won't know for sure unless you pull the piston. But the pattern on the head looks like a piece of ring was banging around in there. Many things can cause a ring to eventually fail such...

If you really like the boat, and it might soon be considered a classic, go with new 4-stroke engines. Hours of operation on engines used in saltwater service have a lot less to do with durability than age. Corrosion almost always gets them.

I got the $32 jar from Grady. Only thing is that they shipped it overnight, which cost an additional $40! The color of the repair gelcoat in the bottle looks too yellow to match up with my hull color. Is there something wrong with the bottle they sent me or does the color lighten up when it cures?

'92 was the first year they used the SV2 hull on the 25' Sailfish. You can easily tell if a boat has the SV2 design or not. If the lift strakes run all the way to the stern, the hull is pre-SV2.

I estimate the amount of fuel I'll be taking on and start listening when it should be close to full. As soon as I hear the fuel start to gurgle in the filler hose I stop fueling.

When I lived out west, I used to trailer an average of 7,000 miles per year. I went through more bearings and hubs than I can recall. Ditto what magicalbill had to say. I learned the hard way that you need to modify your trailer if you are going to do much serious hauling. Bigger axles are...

Yep. Yaw with a following sea means that your bow is too low. Don't use your tabs at all. Just trim the engines out. Given that, the SV2 hull does not like to run fast with a following sea. You just have to find the sweet spot with respect to trim and speed.

The best thing to do is nothing. As long as the ants don't have a food source, they will have to leave your boat and return to the ground. They can't "nest" in your boat unless you have a pile of garbage somewhere. So just clean up you boat and leave it be. Ants are not a big problem in a...

A call or an e-mail to Grady White will get you or the dealer the specs for fitting a trailer to your boat. That's how we did it with my current Karavan. Load Right trailers are easily adjustable. Fitting one to a new boat is a standard procedure that any dealer should be able to do.

My fuel managment system is accurate within a few percent when I fill up the boat on the trailer at a road side gas station. But when I fill up at my marina with the boat in the water, the tank always takes at least 10% more than what the gauges says that I used. The marina says that's because...

While you can adjust the calibration of the fuel management system with the DIP switches at the back of the gage, but if I recall correctly, you can't correct more than 4%.

Yep. The screws are really not necessary. The clips hold the seats in place very well. I like being able to remove the seats for cleaning and for cleaning around them. When I called Grady asking how to remove the seats, they said to just pull them off the clips. They didn't say anything about...

I had to replace both of mine. Getting to the screws in the brackets behind the seats was a bear and required an angle screwdriver. So I didn't use the screws on the reinstall. The seat backs hold in place just fine and now they can be easily removed .

Just out of curiosity, why are you interested in squeezing a few more mph out of the top end? A 228 is not a go fast boat. The hull really doesn't do very well in any kind of seas at speeds over ~30 mph. Do you keep your boat on a lake?

An even easier solution than a terminal block is to use gel filled telephone splice connectors. They are dirt cheap and completely waterproof. http://emoics.info/bright-navy-blue/telephone-splice-connectors.html You want the red ones for the little NMEA 083 wires. They come in 2-wire and...

You do not want to overload a 4-stroke or they will make oil. 5800 rpm at WOT is about the lowest you need to prop the boat. 6000 rpm would probably be better. A 17" prop sounds about right.