The ride of a triton?????

[REY]

I have owned 2 Tr-20x boats a 05 and a 06. I work for Plapps so I might be a little bias. However I can tell you this, The Triton is the best riding boat I have ever been in Period. I have had the privelage to drive many different boats , but for rough water ride you cant beat a Triton. Yes they do chine walk some, but this is nothing a little seat time and proper set up cant cure. The reason they chine walk is also the reason they ride so well in rough water. If you have any questions Please feel free to give me a call.

Richie Young
Plapps Pro Outdoors
859-240-0043

[TimPowell]

The reason they chine walk is also the reason they ride so well in rough water.

Care to explain that one????? Not trying to start any games here but that is an odd statement.


To answer your question, there is not much difference between the Stratos and Javelin. Same designer or something to that effect, cant remember at the moment.

[zx150]

They are nice boats. I have a 21' Skeeter and I think that it rides a little better than a 21' Triton. The Triton has twice the storage room as my Skeeter does. But as far as the ride goes I don't think it is even close. It is just opinion. Someone may disagree with me.

[MsgMills]

I have a Tr 196 and to me this is the best boat I have ever ridden in as far as performance, riding comfort, safe handling and just down right pure safe and secure boat when riding in rough water. I've owned a Skeeter and a Nitro and ridden in just about every style boat out on the market in the last 20 years of fishing tournaments when I could. But none compare to my Triton, wouldn't ever buy another brand, especially never a Ranger....

[R20.9]

msgmills do they ride that much better than a ranger??? Or do you just like a triton alot better than a ranger.

[MsgMills]

msgmills do they ride that much better than a ranger??? Or do you just like a triton alot better than a ranger.

No in my Honest opinion, they ride (Rangers) ride rougher and always seemed to beat me to death, seem alot more heavier as well...All my friends I used to fish with had BassCat's, Stratos, Skeeter's and some Ranger's....Everyone who owned a Ranger bought a Triton, Bullet, or a Skeeter as their next choice of Boats to own...They were just totally turned off with the Ranger's....

[floatman]

MSG the way you went on about that $210.00 reel I got, I figured you for a Bass Tracker! Well I guess everybody gets a little more than thay need sometimes, Oh I think you missed the point about the shipping.

PS: I've got a Ranger, rides great!

[MsgMills]

MSG the way you went on about that $210.00 reel I got, I figured you for a Bass Tracker! Well I guess everybody gets a little more than thay need sometimes, Oh I think you missed the point about the shipping.

PS: I've got a Ranger, rides great!

No, I didn't go over board with the Boat I purchased, I bought the boat that fit my kind of fishing, safety first and utmost comfort second...I've got over 27 years of fishing experience out of Bass Boats and I would say I'm a pretty good judge on their +'s & -'s....

Now as far as your $210.00 reel goes, I do believe anyone who spends that kind of money on a reel to fish with has their priorities in shadier water than me...Never on the britest day would I ever spend that much on a reel...Your choice not mine, I've caught everything i need to catch on $50.00 reels and quite happy....

[CTFSHWHISKER]

i have a 19.6ft stratos 96 model,i fished with many people who run triton,ranger skeeter procraft,i have drove them all and yes the triton takes a little seat time,,the driver has a lot to do with how they ride i think ,find one of each if you are serious,fish out of each one at least a day,in the conditions you fish and decide what you want.My late partner had a 99 tr21,personally i didn't like the solid vibration it had in a 8 in chop,it vibrated extremely bad at ky and barkley in 2 ft waves it was better,i fished in a 520vx last year and loved it.skeeter and nitro i don't like hhow high the seats are and i thought they were rougher riding.jmo,,don't buy until you know what you want,,if i had i would have got the 201 instead of the 295.pro.

[mattplapp]

Posts like this are never a good idea on a discussion board because your not going to get an answer to help you choose a boat. Triton's are one of the best riding boats on the water, but with that said you need to have some seat time to get the entire experience. The guy above who borrowed one and gave his assessment it unfair, he does not have a long term experience with the boat.

For anyone who has you should not have to have seat time to get a boat to drive and ride it's best, you've never driven high end sports cars. Porsche, Corvette, Viper, Lambo's and have a HUGE learning curve at their optimum performance. Odds are there is not a person on this board that could take a Dodge Viper out right now and not kill themselves at 150+ mph.

Now with that said, a Triton, Bullet and other performance hulls have the same learning curve. A Skeeter, Ranger, Procraft, etc DON'T. I am a dealer and I drive them all a LOT. We sell Skeeter, Bullet and Triton. I love all 3, but if I judged the Bullet from my first time driving it we would not be a dealer. I had one of our employees school me on how to drive one and after a few months i LOVED IT.

But, with that said no matter what boat you buy there is not a bad one made these days. There are a few cheaper ones that cost a few dollars less, but they just are not built to hold up long term, you'll notice a difference in a few years. But the bigger name boats, Triton, Skeeter, Bullet, Triton, Ranger, etc, are all top of the line boats and will stand up to the beating we all put these boats through.

The first thing you need to do though before you pick a brand of boat is find a dealer you are comfortable with and buy what they sell. Because you are stuck with your dealer and it's them you need to be able to depend on when times get tough.

Good Luck,
Matt Plapp

[CTFSHWHISKER]

hey matt,
if you are talking of my opinion i didn't borrow it,i fished out of it until he died 2 years ago now my uncle owns it and i still fish out of it,i put most of the fishing time on it it has,i wasn't knocking them or discouraging,i just said what i noticed,i could run my 295 70mph string straight after about 2 hours,the triton took me 10 hours,mine doesn't vibrate everything in it like the triton does on choppy water,that's why i said run any that interest you listen to everyone and decide what you want and fits your needs.

[mattplapp]

I wasn't taking your specific comments to heart in any of my post. I was just squashing the generic view of a Triton, which comes up a lot in this industry. Triton created a mass apeal performance boat and gets penalized for it with negative publicity. Triton could have created a boat with no performance aspect to it and run the same speads as a Ranger or Skeeter and been the "Status Quo" when it came to performance. But they didn't.

That's the only point I was making. Sorry if I came off coming after you

Matt