Grady-White 330 Express Boats For Sale

The Grady-White 330 Express is a twin-outboard offshore boat built for canyon fishing and family cruising in equal measure. It carries an 80-square-foot open cockpit with room to fight fish, paired with a cabin set up for two couples to overnight at a distant port. The hull is Grady-White's SV2 form with a 19-degree deadrise at the transom that narrows as it runs forward, plus two lifting strakes and a Carolina flared bow that knock down spray. Freeboard measures 5 feet at the bow and tapers to 3 feet 8 inches at the stern. Shoppers searching for a Grady-White Express 330 for sale are looking at a time-tested design rather than a brand-new platform.

Performance comes from a pair of Yamaha V8 350-horsepower four-strokes. The 330 Express reaches a top speed of 44.2 knots while burning 69.4 gallons per hour, and best economy lands at 3500 rpm and 23.2 knots, where fuel consumption drops to 21.5 gallons per hour. It planes in 3.1 seconds, hits 20 mph in 4.6 seconds and 30 mph in 7.7 seconds. The boat tracks straight and true in both quartering and beam seas, comes up on plane with little bow rise, and shows no chine walk through turns. With 1,200 liters of fuel aboard, it has the legs for long overnight runs offshore and back.

The helm sits two steps up from the cockpit, with raised windows for visibility past the compass and open panel space for two 12-inch displays after the gauges were relocated to the lower panel. A deluxe Platinum Edition helm seat swivels, slides and adjusts for height with a flip-up bolster, and a molded footrest has been added. Controls include electronic ignitions below the wheel, digital engine controls and the Yamaha Helm Master joystick, which makes docking and tight-quarters maneuvering straightforward. A fiberglass hard top with 2-3/4-inch supports is standard, with an optional aluminum hard top and full glass enclosure; opening side windows hinge from the back to scoop air into the cockpit, and the forward windshield opens at the press of a button.

Fishing features run deep. A 254-quart chilled fish locker uses exterior chill plates to preserve capacity, with a second chill box under the port helm seat and a 45-gallon aerated livewell with a blue, rounded interior. The cockpit carries flush-mounted rod holders on both cap rails, three rocket launchers on the hardtop supports, outriggers, spreader lights, and fresh and raw water washdowns served by dual 1.5-inch cockpit drains. A dive door, a four-step reboarding ladder gate and a transom shower with hot and cold control round out the layout, and options include a grill and a cockpit refrigerator. Underdeck access reaches a Fischer Panda generator with a 13-gallon diesel tank, raw water strainers and fuel filters.

The interior gives 6 feet 2 inches of galley headroom, a double-burner electric stove, a single-basin sink with a pullout sprayer, a refrigerator-freezer and a microwave. Entertainment runs through a Fusion stereo, DVD player and a 19-inch swivel-mounted flat-screen TV, with a solid wood dinette table. The forward berth measures 6 feet 3 inches by 6 feet with dual overhead hatches, blackout shades and bug screens; the wet head offers 6 feet of clearance and a full-length mirror. The mid cabin runs 6 feet 6 inches long, 4 feet 3 inches wide with 30 inches of headroom, a privacy curtain and a reading light. On some boats a Seakeeper gyro is fitted in the mid cabin to cut roll at rest.

Build quality shows in the details, from soft-close door latches and Lewmar windlass with 15 feet of chain and 300 feet of rope to custom color-matched Fusion audio finished in Grady-White cream and Taco outrigger mounts. When weighing a used Grady-White 330 Express for sale, check the engine hours on the Yamaha V8s, confirm whether the boat has the aluminum hard top, Seakeeper, grill or cockpit refrigerator options, and verify the canvas and T-top cover are intact, since these features drive the price between examples.