Trojan Boat Forum

http://www.boatersland.com/int-fbkactg.html Boatersland? Never heard of them. Is that Boater's World trying to come back from the dead after those turds who own Ritz Camera liquidated them? I miss you Boater's World! I still read your catalogs under the covers at night with a flash light. My wife th...

Great info -- thanks for the feedback guys! I'm looking at this boat. It is listed by a broker. http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/boatMergedDetails.jsp?boat_id=2360874&ybw=&units=Feet&currency=USD&access=Public&listing_id=10944&url=[url] I've bought a couple of planes be...

Okay, Really? No one has a sample sales contract to share, or advice as to what should be in one?

Let me start:

1). Subject to approved financing.
2). Your thoughts here. What did you get shafted on when you bought your boat?


Thanks, Perry

Is anyone planning to bring a tricab for me to oogle over????

Okey-dokey, here goes. I'm looking for a tricab with the mid-mounted engines. That's about as specific as I can get right now. I haven't stepped foot on one yet, so I don't have my heart set on a particular year. Feel free to PM me with your experience about tricabs to help steer me toward a particu...

Does anyone know of a search engine searcher that collects information from multiple internet sites and lists them in one place? If I want a tricabin, do I have to search boatsville, AND boatrader, AND yachtworld, AND -- you get the picture. The type of website that I seek exists for planes. http://...

For a second I thought this post might not be about boats.....

Thanks guys. My main use would be on the Chesapeake bay, based on the northern end not far from were Sir Aaron of Baltimore keeps his tricab. The usual boating day would be gunkholing with the wife and kids, probably involving dropping a line to fish, but not for anything like stripers. I like the t...

WHAT? No answer in 45 minutes on a holiday weekend?????? Actually what i forgot to add is that I am the original do-it-yourselfer. I even considered building a steel boat from plans. I found a really cool one where you start with 40 x 10 ft sheets of steel. All the parts are then cut-out on a plasma...

Given that the boat is a 1980 tricab with the mid-mounted gas engines, and assuming that the boat doesn't sink, catch fire, run aground, get rammed, or suffer any other major calamity, how much would you expect to spend on maintenance in a year? For this question, forget the soft decks, rotten strin...

I am in danger of making my largest boat purchase. Does anyone have a sample sales contract to use in case a broker is not involved? My presumption is that they will have one of their own. Besides the obvious " subject to satisfactory survey" clause, what other items have you found useful ...

I do not need assistance deciding what kind of boat I want, as I am almost certain that the kind of boat that I want is a mid-engine tricab. I can certainly use the internet to find potential boats. I have read David Pascoe's two books on marine surveys, so I feel that I am in a position to see if a...

I need a less expensive hobby, so I thought I would buy a boat. To that end, I've been researching the tricab. I have read nearly every post on this website up to about page 54 of 90 something so far while trying to educate myself. I get through about 8 pages of posts each evening. It was funny read...

Tuck wrote:
i would have called in sick today...but they all know i just got the boat.

Note to self -- buy boat, keep mouth shut.

I do want everyone to know I am trying limit my questions here by reading different books like "Chapman Seamanship & Small Boat Handling" first. But I like to make sure I am comprehending and applying the information right. While i applaud the effort to educate yourself through reading...