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SYDNEY-based Rod Findlay is an experienced game fisho and no stranger to offshore boats. A few years back I spent a day onboard Murrifin, Rod and his brother Craig’s 39 foot flybridge cruiser. Murrifin was no ordinary boat. Rod and Craig built the boat, creating a deadly game fishing platform, one that’s spent many days successfully chasing fish off the East Coast. Rod also had a second boat which was recently sold, a large trailerable centre console, and it needed a replacement. The new boat would complement Murrifin; the much-needed second boat for sneaky day trips up and down the coast. The answer was in a Grady White 228 Seafarer, aptly