Thread: Crack in hull of my Triton

Originally Posted by LG Whisenant

LOWE? I thought it was a Triton? Or it a Lowe boat that is made
For Triton?


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Triton contracts out (or at least did as of 2010 when we bought our Triton) some of their aluminum hulls to Lowe. Lowe would build the boat and badge it as a Triton, put it on a Triton trailer and then Triton dealers would sell it for a premium price. Nothing that came with our bot mentioned Lowe whatsoever. It wasn’t until I had performance questions that the Triton customer service dept goofed up and put us in contact with Lowe Boats. Lowe confirmed to us that they built hulls for Triton and the only difference was the interior layouts and paint color schemes.

Sorry to hear about the wield,but some of us will be looking at the trailer's on our boats.

Had the same thing happen to me about 10 yrs ago. Bought a tracker on a tracker trailer off a dealer brand new. Boat hung over the bunks by about 2 inches and the hull cracked just like your pics. Tracker wouldn’t warantee it, but dealer got it welded and fixed and I learned that all aluminum boat manufacturers require all aluminum boats to ride on bunks with a 1.5 inches of bunks exposed at the back or it voids the warantee. I have never found that in writing anywhere either and your never told that when you buy a boat by most dealers either. Make sure your bunks are exposed at least 1.5 inches at the back when the boat is fully loaded on the trailer if it’s aluminum.

Sorry about your luck you would think for what they charge for boats they would honor the warranty


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Originally Posted by Mike1234

Sorry about your luck you would think for what they charge for boats they would honor the warranty


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X2! A good business would have just taken care of it. No excuses.

Had no idea Lowe makes Triton .

Easiest way I have found to pull boat off of trailer is lower the jack block each rear corner raise trailer jack use floor jack or bottle jack raise boat block move trailer forward and repeat until trailer is out from under the boat.

Triton and Ranger are both built from Crestliner jigs. Some of the Lowe are too, as Brunswick owns Crestliner and Lowe. Any time Crestliner makes a change to their boat, Ranger and Triton have to wait 5 years to put I on their boats. Since Johnny Morris owns Triton and Ranger now, it's hard to say what will happen to that deal. He might just use the Bass Tracker boats and put Triton and Ranger decals on them.