Glasstream - Splash a ChampioN??

[Lea]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by rid 05 198 &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Looks like Blazer boats have been around for some time! Do you all know where they fit in? </td></tr></table>

Not sure they would fit in here at all??? As far as I know, they are a family-owned company in Pensacola, FL. and have nothing what-so-ever to do with the evolution of ChampioNs.

[pmgoffjr]

They splashed a bullet for their bass hulls, fought a big fight with pathfinder on their bay boats.

[slinkeey]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Jason Bragg &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Here's the history of the 3 Elite hulls. They are Champion hulls regardless of the hands that have touched them.

210 - Born from the 206 hull. Alan Stinson worked his mad genius on the bottom and added a few more inches to it, and the 210 hull was born. (True Champion offspring from the Mountain Home hulls)

202 - Born from the 198 hull which was born from the 196 hull. Again Alan working his magic when he created the 198 and the 202. (True Champion offspring from the Mountain Home hulls)

183 - Hull bottom started with the 187 hull, and again Alan worked his genius and gave reason to his being known as the best bass boat hull designer of all time. The 183 was considered a new creation for Champion because it evolved in the tooling shop far beyond the 187, but it did still begin using the 187 as its template. (From that perspective it is a True Champion offspring from the Mountain Home Hulls)

I hope this clears up the hull questions. </td></tr></table>

So these new hulls are modified ChampioN Hulls.

What exactly did Alan achieve when he improved the ChampioN hulls?

[bassin butch]

I will take a shot at it: He made the boats less tippy, added tons of storage, kept the known MTN Home ride, made the boats so easy to drive, created comfort. And I think he did some strake mods to compensate for his hull mods.

Whatever he did worked: Take a spin in a late model Champ and you will see for yourself.

[Wall-I]

<table width="90%" cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 align=center><tr><td>Quote, originally posted by Lea &raquo;</td></tr><tr><td class="quote">Surprised you haven't posted the same about Cajun....

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Had a 17'3" Rajun Cajun that looked like a Champ. I think it weighed like 900 lbs and had a Mariner 150 Mag on it. Mid 60 mph boat. But the Paul Elias and Ricky Green models of that time no way looked like champ splashes.