On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:39:20 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Sep 18, 8:06?am, wrote:
Not sure if you guys saw the video Triumph did last year when they
pulled the boat on the ground but they just did another one and it's
even funnier. Those guys do some crazy stuff. You can check it out
he

www.toughboats.com

That is a funny video.

And I'm convinced. If I need to buy a boat to drop off the back of a
speeding semi, bounce off a few trees, or fling off a 100-foot cliff
into a lake below it will be a Triumph. Not so sure it will plane
well, track well, ride reasonably dry, maintain the cosmetic integrity
of the finish, or do any of the other things one would appreciate in a
boat of that type, but who cares if you can bounce it off of trees and
semis? :-)

I wonder if anyone in rec.boats has actually seen a Triumph a few years
old and can testify about the boats appearance and handling.

Ahem...

As I have stated in the past, they are tough. There are concerns
about UV damage over the long term, but so far, it's been good.

As to looks after a few years - they get dirty fast and are hard to
clean.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:39:20 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Sep 18, 8:06?am, wrote:
Not sure if you guys saw the video Triumph did last year when they
pulled the boat on the ground but they just did another one and it's
even funnier. Those guys do some crazy stuff. You can check it out
he

www.toughboats.com
That is a funny video.

And I'm convinced. If I need to buy a boat to drop off the back of a
speeding semi, bounce off a few trees, or fling off a 100-foot cliff
into a lake below it will be a Triumph. Not so sure it will plane
well, track well, ride reasonably dry, maintain the cosmetic integrity
of the finish, or do any of the other things one would appreciate in a
boat of that type, but who cares if you can bounce it off of trees and
semis? :-)
I wonder if anyone in rec.boats has actually seen a Triumph a few years
old and can testify about the boats appearance and handling.

Ahem...

As I have stated in the past, they are tough. There are concerns
about UV damage over the long term, but so far, it's been good.

As to looks after a few years - they get dirty fast and are hard to
clean.

SWF,
You have to excuse me, when I go out of town, or send the weekend at the
lake, I always just hit the "catch up" button, so I might missed a few
hundred posts for every day I don't look at rec.boats. The past few
weekends, I have been spending 2 or 3 nights on the water. This is
really my favorite time of the year. Well this and the spring time,
but then again, early summer isn't bad. But late July and August are
really too damn hot. Must be global warming.

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:25:03 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

This is really my favorite time of the year.

Totally agree. I love it this time of year.

Espiecally out on Narraganset Bay - it's absoutely gorgeous out there
- nice crisp temperature, blue skies...beautiful.