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Grady-White found "Unseaworthy"
I would have to agree that Grady Whites can be "unseaworthy" because
mine sank: http://www.myboatsank.com The photos on this website are of my Grady White Marlin 28. She is a 1990 model and is equipped with twin Yamaha 250 Sal****er Series outboard engines. She also has a four stroke 9.9hp Yamaha kicker motor and all of the fishing gear that you could ever dream of. I purchased the boat at the Seattle Boat Show in late January of 2004 from a local Grady White dealer, Jacobsen's Marine in the Ballard area of Seattle, Washington. She sank seven months later on September 3, 2004 while fishing with my father at the mouth of the Columbia River. Within eight minutes of leaving the safety of the harbor in Ilwaco, Washington the boat had slipped enough water through a cracked open seam in our splash well to fatally condemn our trip. The experience was absolutely terrifying as my father who is in his eighties and I crossed the Columbia Bar, the "Graveyard of the Pacific", in a sinking boat. Worse yet was not knowing why the boat was sinking. Even worse than that was the response I received from both the dealer, Jacobsen's Marine and the company, Grady White of North Carolina. In the near future, this website will provide more photos, details on how My Grady White Sank and marine safety considerations that will certainly make your boat safer. |
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Subject: Grady-White found "Unseaworthy"
From: "MyBoatSank.com" I would have to agree that Grady Whites can be "unseaworthy" because mine sank: http://www.myboatsank.com The photos on this website are of my Grady White Marlin 28. She is a 1990 model and is equipped with twin Yamaha 250 Sal****er Series outboard engines. She also has a four stroke 9.9hp Yamaha kicker motor and all of the fishing gear that you could ever dream of. I purchased the boat at the Seattle Boat Show in late January of 2004 from a local Grady White dealer, Jacobsen's Marine in the Ballard area of Seattle, Washington. She sank seven months later on September 3, 2004 while fishing with my father at the mouth of the Columbia River. Within eight minutes of leaving the safety of the harbor in Ilwaco, Washington the boat had slipped enough water through a cracked open seam in our splash well to fatally condemn our trip. The experience was absolutely terrifying as my father who is in his eighties and I crossed the Columbia Bar, the "Graveyard of the Pacific", in a sinking boat. Worse yet was not knowing why the boat was sinking. Even worse than that was the response I received from both the dealer, Jacobsen's Marine and the company, Grady White of North Carolina. In the near future, this website will provide more photos, details on how My Grady White Sank and marine safety considerations that will certainly make your boat safer. Let's see, you bought a 13-14 year old USED boat and it sank and now it's the manufacture and dealers fault. I got to hear this one. Did you get a thorough survey when you bought it? Did you have it professorially maintained or did you do most of the work yourself? I crossed the Columbia Bar, the "Graveyard of the Pacific" Sounds like an area where one should be extra careful about the condition of their vessel. Do you mean to tell us this was the first time it ever shipped any water and the bilges were always dry in the recent passed? Did you have a bilge high water alarm? Your bilge pump/s were working? Did you have any extra bilge pumps installed? Even worse than that was the response I received from both the dealer, Jacobsen's Marine and the company, Grady White of North Carolina. What was their reply and what did you ask for? and marine safety considerations that will certainly make your boat safer. Yeah, right. This is all about helping others. Capt. Bill |
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Well, I don't mean to be uncharitable, but it looks to me like there is
long-term corrosion in several of your pictures. I wouldn't buy a boat with problems like the ones shown in these photos because I think they are indications of poor past maintenance: http://www.myboatsank.com/photos/3-B...d/DSC01139.JPG http://www.myboatsank.com/photos/3-B...ster%20049.jpg http://www.myboatsank.com/photos/3-B...d/DSC01107.JPG I don't think corrosion like that developed after the sinking. "MyBoatSank.com" wrote in message ups.com... I would have to agree that Grady Whites can be "unseaworthy" because mine sank: http://www.myboatsank.com The photos on this website are of my Grady White Marlin 28. She is a 1990 model and is equipped with twin Yamaha 250 Sal****er Series outboard engines. |
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