91' Dolohin ????????

[joeboy]

Last year I got a 1991 25' Dolphin. It has a wide beam and twin 200 yamahas. I kept it in the water in cape may and on my dock there were a few other 25' gradys. They were all sailfish and I could not see a large differance in the hull or the boat for that matter does any one know what the differance is????? I am tossed up between selling it or not and I dont know my upsides of downsides for that matter It seems that a sailfish has a head and the dolphin does not but the cockpit of the dolphin seems a hair bigger. the transom by the engins on the sialfish is solid and the dolphin folds down for when the motors are trimed up. They are my only observations so far
Thanks for the help

 

[gw204]

The Dolphin is basically a scaled-up Gulfstream. GW cut back on the family accomodations and made the Dolphin fisherman-friendly (less cabin and more cockpit space).

The difference you see in the transom configuration is simply one of three power options that were available on both the Sailfish and the Dolphin:

1. Transom mounted outboards
2. Bracketed outboards
3. Sterndrive

Both the Dolphin and the Sailfish were built on the exact same hull until the Sailfish received the eurotransom hull in '94.

 

[BobP]

How about instead - a scaled down Sailfish!

The Sailfish was offered in three versions of same year: engines on transom, engines on bracket, and I/O.
Engines on bracket the far most popular.

The Dolphin version was less of a cabin, at a more attractive price. You apparently have the engines on transom version of the Dolphin.

How many steps does it take to get on the bridge from the cockpit ?
0, 1, or 2?

 

[BobP]

I believe also the Atlantic flybridge was built on same hull.

Got their money 'sworth on that hull mold.

For the Sailfish, it became SeaV2 in 1992.

 

[Grog]

The Atlantic was a different and short lived hull.

The Dolphin's cabin is like a Gulfstream's and doesn't have the aft berth but you have 50 more gallons worth of fuel capacity. You already know the difference above the deck. Look at the 1991 Grady borchures and it'll show you the variosus models.

 

[joeboy]

There is only one step up fron the cocpit! Is my observation correct or does the cockpit just appear larger in the dolphin

Thanks for all the info

 

[joeboy]

So the cabin of the sailfish is more family freindly but the dolphin is more fisherman freindly. The hull is the same on both they are diffrent boats from the cockpit and the cabin. The boat deffinatly seems very fisherman freindly. Would that put my fuel capicit at about 160 gallons ???

 

[gw204]

That's correct.

Fuel capacity of the Sailfish is 202 gallons and I believe the Dolphin is 250.

 

[joeboy]

Just found the catalog on the grady site. the sail fish has 202 gal fuel cap and the dolphin has 240 thanks for all the help now I wont sound clueless when people ask me the differance being more of a fisherman than a cruiser im becoming more glad that the dolphin fell into my lap
Thanks again

 

[fishie1]

IMO the Dolphin is a great fishing platform- the cockpit feels huge and just enough cabin amenities to keep spouse and kids comfortable. When moving up (I had a '91) I felt only the 265 or Marlin or larger compared in terms of open space. The Sailfish is much nicer below.