Those late 90's Tritons had major issues with spider cracking. Seems the issue is following Earl. I had a '99 TR20 and spider cracks were unbelievable. I also had issues with the boat leaning to the port side when driving. I also had a terrible hole shot even with a Bravo 1.
Man I am glad I am reading this because I was fixin to jump on a Caymas. No way do I dare if they have the same issues as my old Triton.
17 Ranger Z520c Black Out Edition
Yamaha 250 SHO
Former Triton owner here. I'll never spend money on an Earl Bentz boat again. The guy has had 4 boat companies in 30 years. Pretty obvious his pattern, growing pains, things go great for a few years, take foot off gas, cash out. The problem is you don't know what stage his company is in when you buy. $80k on an unknown. No thanks
All I can say is I experienced problems with my caymas and if you have questions shoot me message.
17 Ranger Z520c Black Out Edition
Yamaha 250 SHO
I went thru all of this same kind of crap 40yrs ago with Hydra Sports. First year and half I had my boat about 4 months. The rest of the time it was getting the band aide treatment to the hull. Get it re rigged and run it. Put it on the trailer and would be busted out just like before. This happened several times. I wouldn’t buy anything Earl had his name on no matter the price or the product. The worst experience I’ve ever had. Every brand has problems, it’s how they take care of them. A customer shouldn’t have to battle it out with the company to have the problem taken care of. Especially when you’re dropping $85K on a toy.
There’s no use being stupid if you’re not willing to show it off.
Between the 2 I'd stay in the FXR. The Caymas is an alright looking boat but I've been all through a cx20 and there's nothing special about it and there's definitely nothing in to make it 80k like they're asking. Throw in having to move batteries around to get the listing out and it's a hard pass. If you're just looking to swap it up after riding in a skeeter for so many years I'd look elsewhere. There's alot of quality boats out there to choose from.
I'm in a Phoenix now and if I were to swap it'd be a toss up between an FXR and Blazer 650. Maybe even a Falcon predator too but the ones I've seen have had alot of little QC problems that bothered me.