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I suspect the issue is not warmer water or salinity (which only varies slightly), but time. When I moved from Florida to North Carolina my boating season was cut in half. If you live in south Florida your boating season is pretty much year round. It you live on Buzzards Bay that season is much...

I dont know what you are talking about, but it snows in North Carolina every year, especially where I live. I (Lol). I built a boat shed to keep the elements, fall leaves too, off my Grady. We have gotten a foot of frozen sunshine in the past 3 days.

Happy Anniversary! I think 10 years the gift is monofilament or is it electronics I forget? Where are we going for dinner tonight? If it is Burger King will you let me value size it? I am worth a large fry and coke. I joined in 2009 though I have been a Grady admirer since 1990 and an owner...

When I had my 192 I used the guys out of Vanceboro and I will second it here. They did a great job at a reasonable price. I am thinking I will get my next set from them as well.

Low temps in western NC are expected to be below zero Wednesday night and Thursdays highs are about 15. I am looking forward to spring! So why do you need to keep the bilge warm especially since your boat is on a lift? I get it if it was kept in the water and you didn't want to let the...

Here in the Smoky Mountains we are getting sleet and snow. Though not in the amounts our friends at NOAA said. Yall in the northeast are getting hammered with snow. I guess the marmot was right.lol.

Two years ago I was prepping for my trip to the Florida Keys. I took my trailer to my local trailer /rv guy here in the Smokies to get the wheel bearings replaced and packed. I did this in late April early May for a late June departure. Well, my trailer work gt put on the back burner and...

Hey Guys: I am heading to Key Largo in June the week of the 22nd and staying 10 days. Anybody want to meet up down there and meet up someplace either at a dock like Jimmy Jihnsons Big Chill or on a reef like Grecian Rocks? I wil be the guy with the small Grady (lol). Just kick it around.

I dont know your budget so it is hard to advise here. If and when I make a move to a bigger hull it will be an Islander 27 or maybe a marlin with SeaV2 hull. I wish Grady still made the Islander but they dont. You are gaining 3 feet of running surface and that alone would seem to be an...

Yeah I do get it Bill. It is like taking your work with you to sea when you are trying to leave it all the dock. I fish because I like to eat it but I must say even if thr fishing is thin, the day on the water is worth its weight in fuel or gold (lol). But hey, the black eyed peas helped buy...

Glad you found the leak and it was something simple. A hydrometer measures how dense or the salt content in water. On the other hand pH is the unit of measurement to gauge how acidic or alkaline a fluid may be. Some folks may not be all geeky about such thing, but given in the context of...

Magic, I understand completely. I enjoy listening to it and when I troll it sometimes gets boring and on the lake we enjoy it playing in the background. I will radio fish when get to where I want to wet a line to see what folks might be reporting and so forth. Gradywhite248, that is why you...

one of my favorite threads here was one of the music folks enjoy listening to while heading out, trolling or cruising and just hanging out on the sandbar smoehwere. I have almost 3,500 songs on my ipod and perhaps one day I will put XM on the boat for music, but until then my ipod will do. I...

journeyman, you are correct. I keep an 80 gallon saltwater aquarium and I missed the reading on this (lol). I tend to think the guy is just collecting wash and rain water, but I could be wrong and a little test using the hydrometer will give him a piece of mind or bring some heartache...

So Billytpd, I have driven in your fine state many times and you guys have the worse roads in terms of potholes and overall condition. So, yes I know what you mean and are saying....

Doc, I am a reovering environmental planner/biologist and I once did a stint at the Volusia County MPO ( daytona beach area for the folks not from Florida). I see your points quite clearly and the way highways are funded it occurs on a 7 year cycle for projects in the transportation improvement...

As mentioned before there are a few areas where washing the boat or rain water can dribble in here or there into the boat and get into the bilge. If you do not want to taste the water and honestly who would right? Go to your local aquarium store and buy a hyrdometer. Use a clean sponge (new...

I have always wondered about the ride and sea worthiness of cruisers like the four winns compared to the Grady. They are 2 very different boats and purposes and their running surfaces are radically different. Funny you had no confidence in that big boat to run to the Bahamas and now you do. I...

I second what mboyatt says. I mark the bulk of my living in the travel and tourism sector and I have noticed an up tick in bookings in my vacation homes and I suspect it is a result of cheaper energy. If there was confidence in the lower prices staying low I think we could see a real...

Congrats on the boat. Funny, it doesnt look upside down. Enjoy your new Grady. Maybe one day I will get a marlin. Nice boat.