Fellow Triumph owners,
Thanks for all of the insight, I've been considering a boat purchase for some time. Been educating myself and passively researching the matter with the intent of 'eventually' purchasing a boat. In my reading, I came across one of the recent magazine articles and for the first time learned about the plastic boat. I not hooked at that point, but intrigued because my buddy and I spend much time among the rocks in his glass boat (its a good workout, trying to pull our lobster traps by hand without scratching his boat). Eventually, I forgot about the Triumph until the recent Boston boat show where the wife and I saw the 235 and fell in love (mostly I fell in love). Unfortunately the 235 is outside the budget for a first boat, but at least I was again interested in the Triumph thing. That lead me here, where I have been lurking for a while, studying, learning, wishing I could see the darn pictures. Eventually, my need to see the pictures won out and, just today, I bought a used 210CC (that one fit the budget).
As you can see, I am now real, a registered user. I will happily spend whatever money it takes to belong to this community, because I can see that it will be money well spent and because I can see how much work goes into it (Thanks to Randy and the others). Even with my unofficial and non-picture viewing outsider status, I found this site to be very informative and useful.
Thanks to all of you and your shared knowledge, it helped me with the decision to buy and made it an educated decision. Now lets hope the boat floats, I plan to launch it tomorrow if I can figure out how to get it out of the driveway (much larger than expected, once I got it down there. I'm sure daylight will make it easier)...
Ted
Thanks for all of the insight, I've been considering a boat purchase for some time. Been educating myself and passively researching the matter with the intent of 'eventually' purchasing a boat. In my reading, I came across one of the recent magazine articles and for the first time learned about the plastic boat. I not hooked at that point, but intrigued because my buddy and I spend much time among the rocks in his glass boat (its a good workout, trying to pull our lobster traps by hand without scratching his boat). Eventually, I forgot about the Triumph until the recent Boston boat show where the wife and I saw the 235 and fell in love (mostly I fell in love). Unfortunately the 235 is outside the budget for a first boat, but at least I was again interested in the Triumph thing. That lead me here, where I have been lurking for a while, studying, learning, wishing I could see the darn pictures. Eventually, my need to see the pictures won out and, just today, I bought a used 210CC (that one fit the budget).
As you can see, I am now real, a registered user. I will happily spend whatever money it takes to belong to this community, because I can see that it will be money well spent and because I can see how much work goes into it (Thanks to Randy and the others). Even with my unofficial and non-picture viewing outsider status, I found this site to be very informative and useful.
Thanks to all of you and your shared knowledge, it helped me with the decision to buy and made it an educated decision. Now lets hope the boat floats, I plan to launch it tomorrow if I can figure out how to get it out of the driveway (much larger than expected, once I got it down there. I'm sure daylight will make it easier)...
Ted
