Trojan Boat Forum

What's the difference?

I, gulp, let another person drive my '85 tricab for the first time the other day. On my stroll around parts of the boat I don't normally see underway, I glanced down at the spray rail. Besides reminding me of the taillight fin on my late grandmother's Buick, it was doing almost nothing. Only about the last 8" was deflecting any water, and the forwardmost 4" or so was buried in a secondary or tertiary bow wave. We were doing about 15 knots, and the (aft-mounted) fuel tank was full. Hydrodynamically speaking, I have to ask, what is the point? With four feet of freeboard aft, the deck cannot be any drier. Why should I not just remove them and be done with spray rail maintenance for all time? They are attached in the boot stripe, so a paint match is all that is required, not a gelcoat match. Wadda ya think?

I have know a few people that have removed them on the F36 Convertible/sedan with no issues . I have thought about removing mine .

The one negative thing I can think of is that the spray rail can like a bumper against a pipeline or floating dock etc.