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We have a 32 GB with a Vacuflush head. It will go months and months without losing vacuum. In the past we have had 3 other GB's 42-46' plus a Fleming 50, all with Vacuflush heads. All mostly trouble free outside of guests not following the rules ;-) The most common reasons in my experience with...

Hey Rob, I know that this won't make you feel any better, but here goes; 1. We recently prematurely lost our dog Stella, I honestly would rather have lost our boat. My wife would not be crying in the middle of the night 5 weeks later. Boats are replacable.. 2. In 2009 when the great recession...

We had an older Fleming 50 with Cat 3208N's, 11 knots and change at max RPM's but we cruised at 8.5 to 9. It came with trim tabs. They made a slight difference at max RPM but at the speeds we actually travelled, all they accomplished was to increase the fuel burn. They ate zincs! We removed them...

Hi Ray, Just curious if you closed on the beautiful 36 GB, and if so, did you swap dinghies on the Sea Wise davit? Work out well? Regards, Scott

Hi Pat, Not an answer to the question that you asked, but; the hands down BEST boat inprovement project we have ever done was replacing the Grunert holding plate setup on our 42 Grand Banks. Ours had an 80+ pound 120 volt compressor in the engine room powering two boxes; one in the galley...

I am going to strip the failing varnish from our hand and cap rails and finish them with Semco Teak Sealer. The small color chips on their website are not really informative. If you have teak finished with Semco could you please post a photo and identify the Semco color, ie, Natural, Goldtone...

We had the same thing happen to one of our main engines enroute from Hood Canal to Anacortes some years bak. The high temp alarm went off. Cleaning the strainer was easy enough but I had to use ? a dowel or something similar to push the seaweed blockage out of the thru-hull. Very fine hair-like...

I replaced the fuse holder/covers that you are referring to years ago on a GB, and I did source the parts from Wards Marine. Good luck! Scott

This is from the Puget Sound Grand Banks Owners Asso. facebook page: "Dear friends of Cats ‘N Dawgs, It’s with great sadness that we share that our Grand Banks is now resting at the bottom of Glacier Bay. We are grateful to report all crew members are safe and healthy. On July 1st...

The one spot that I am aware of is the hadicapped-accesible guest dock (aka guest dock 2) at the Port of Everett marina, near Lombardi's restaraunt. Not the whole marina. That's the only one I can remember!

We are on our 4th Grand Banks. I was told by our long-time GB broker that almost all older GB's were made with 50A 120 volt shore power inlets. One boat still had the 50A inlets but came with a bin full of 30 amp cords and a short 30A male x 50A female pigtail. Other boats had already been...

<<The OP is asking about a new build, so its gel coat, not paint.>> We bought a new Selene 55 in 2008. We chose a flag blue hull as on option. It was painted with Awlgrip. So new builds with colored hulls can be painted, too. Regards, Scott

Two thoughts; one, with a long-ago boat that had constant dinghy outboard troubles, I found it much easier to borrow a trailer and trailer the dinghy with outboard attached to the shop. Two, many fuel docks, including the one in Semiahmoo Marina (Blaine, WA) where we keep our boat, only sell...

Very interested in going to Semco Goldtone in lieu of varnish for the caprail and handrails on our 32. Does anyone who has done this have photos that they could post? It's the caprail that's the thorn in our side, with our relentless PNW rain, water seems to find its way under the varnish near...

+1 (2, 3, 4?) on junking the holding plate system and installing new 12 volt units based on Danfoss compressors. We had a 42 GB with two boxes, and the factory Grunert compressor with holding plates. Terrible performance and the entire town of Nanaimo would go dim from the start-up current. We...

Thanks Tiltrider!

We do not have active NEXUS cards (applied over a year ago, they took our $75, still waiting..) I have downloaded the Arrive CAN app on my phone and gone through the registration process for my wife and myself. I am struggling with both the app and the website on a PC. To enter the Gulf Islands...

Grand Banks fuse Does the fuse look like what can be seen in the photos below? If so, that is a shore power fuse. The photos are of a 1992 GB 32, we have had 3 other Grand Banks boats and they all had this exact fuse holder for the shore power (fore and aft) and all 4 have a breaker at the helm...

Jones Act? The article above, as well as other articles I have read, say that the Ever Forward was departing Baltimore bound for Norfolk. I always thought that the Jones Act restricted shipping between two US ports to ships built, owned, and operated by US citizens. It certainly appears that...

dinghy on Sea Wise davit We have a 32 Grand Banks with an Achilles HB 280 DX (148#) and a Tohatsu 9.9 electric start EFI engine (106#) along with a battery and fuel tank, (WAG 40#?) so about 294# total, mounted to the factory swim step with a manual Sea Wise davit. We are very happy with the...

Cdr. Gano, That is spectacular. Regards, Scott

+1 on Smartplug. When we seatrialed our boat the dock end of the plug was already bad. First order of business after completion of purchase was to install Smartplug receptacles fore and aft and put a matching plug on the cord. Also +1 on Comodave, rather have a fire at the pedestal than the...

Bongi, Yes, water works wonders. Dirt and moss get in the window channels and "glue" them in place, try spraying into the edges from the outside with a hose. Sometimes a hand on each side (in and out,) lift/wiggle etc, helps. Once they move, open them fully and scrub the channels clean with a...

Hi Max, The patches of old varnish will make those areas look very different when new varnish is applied. I once took a set of nameboards to a cabinet shop to get rid of the ghost images of the old name/hailing port. They ran them through the planer once then the big feed-through sander. No...

another skeg example Hi Max, Just FYI the attached photo shows the rudder and skeg on our 32 GB with a single 135 HP Lehman.