To me, this Deluxe Tournament is the perfect boat for something like East Central Arkansas where your biggest body of water is likely gonna be the White River or the Arkansas River, but more often than not you would be fishing the bayous and farm ponds. Nice and narrow so you can easily slip through the cypress tress in the bayous and sneak into the tight oxbow lakes off the rivers during high water periods. A lot of dirt roads down there too, so the ability to spray it out without carpet holding that dust/mud is really nice. A quick spray and wipe down cleans it all up.
Definitely an awesome throwback boat with some of the modern creature comforts we’ve come to appreciate in current designs. I am more in the market for a PII but if I were to move back south to East Central Arkansas, I would certainly have one of these.
Question for those that have been in one of these for testing or ridden in the old ones, does the tri-hull design provide a little more stability given that it is a narrower boat? More surface area to resist the side to side rocking? Obviously some side to side is going to have to be acceptable in a narrower boat, just curious if the hull design helps in that regard.
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