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I am looking to find an Offshore 24 or Explorer 24 from the early years and I have looked at 3 of them and all of them have transom and stringer rot, and were all trailer kept. Just wondering how hard it will be to find a solid hull that I can re-power or use the Engine it comes with for a year...

Another concern I had discovered on the 228 is the capacity limit. It says 8 passengers or 1100lbs. Seems a bit low for a boat this size any input on this? I have 4 children from 2years to 14yrs and my wife we would total up to about 800 lbs (and the kids grow more every day) so that leaves...

We did not open the gas tank hatch, just the empty one in back. so I do not know how the stringers look up further toward the cabin. the deck sides on port and starboard seem very strong and did not flex much, I am 270LBS.

I pulled the rear hatch up, and knocked on the walls of the stringers that run from the front to back and about 3 ft from the transom there is a section of the stringer wall that when tapped is soft and hollow sounding. The rest of the entire compartment of the rear center bilge sound like...

Also the hatch has some rot in it.. no overly concerned with that but the deck itself is solid.. Also the hull had water in it from the rain and snow.. is that normal as well.

I went over lunch to take a look and did some self tests on the hull of the seafarer with a plastic hammer.. the transom seems solid but found a stringer problem in the back hatch it appears to be really solid the entire way around but in that 6 foot rear hatch the port side has a 12 X 12 inch...

Hello, new to boating and have found 2 Gradys very close to me for under $5K one is an 1989 Offshore 242G (I think) with twin 135 OMC Sea drives (Also has a super nice trailer) other is a 1988 228 Seafarer with a 1991 200HP johnson on a bracket. Both have about 700 hours From all my reading...