Well just picked up my new boat last night! Its been a long time since I had one. I used to have an old fiberglass 20' I bought used and currently been fishing out of an old little two man boat for the last few years, But thanks to some good investments over the summer in $TTWO stock, I sold some of the shares to help purchase my new fishin machine, and get back on the water for some serious fishing!

 

I been working on this deal for a while and keeping it on the down low, I wanted to surprise my dad especially so we can start entering some local two man team tourney's around here in OK. His face was priceless last night when i lured him outside to look at a new rod and he sees a boat sitting in the driveway! ha

 

Tracker 175 TXW

Maxed out the motor to 75HP Optimax

Upgraded the Trolling motor to 24 Volt 70lbs Thrust Maxxum

Added a Humminbird 798ci hd si

 

So now all we gotta do is go have some fun!

 

Then someone told my wife about a his/her league and she itching to team up for that, so we should be pretty busy this year on the water.

 

Congrats!!!

Nice boat man, congrats!!!

Should be a lot of fun. Congrats and enjoy!

Thank you! I am excited, when i was little my dad had a boat and we always went fishing to the lakes around here, so I'm looking forward to dragging him around now!

 

Even got good timing with the boat, mercury just added an extra 2 year warranty to their standard 3 years for the month of March.

Outstanding!  Now go make some memories.

Great boat dude!! Yall will have alot of fun with that! Now you can get alot of prefishing in before your co angler tourneys!! Good job of thinking ahead for the trolling motor, electronics and warranty. The 75 hp will be a good all around motro for you and wont cost you a fortune in fuel!! Love the red color!!

I hope alot of the younger guys without boats will see this and see what a little patience, hard work, good investments, and good timing will do for ya!

Thanks man, the red looks pretty sweet with the black jeep and being Aluminum pretty easy to tow as well.

 

I probably been reading and lurking in boat forums for a months. About what to upgrade on this boat to make a happy fisherman on the water. One thing i know for sure I wanted out the gate was a fish finder with Side Imaging. Then of course a number of people were saying they quickly upgraded the trolling motor later on to a 24 volt, and most said the 60HP was nice but if you could swing it max it out at the 75HP.

 

I always try to do extensive research before pulling the trigger on something like this, i always want to hear what people wish they would have done different or complaints about this and that, which lead to getting the upgrades.

 

I looked at others like the G3 and Stratos etc especially at the boat show back in late Jan. but the starting price coupled with the perks BPS throws in $500 Giftcard, rewards pts, and the 2 year VIP discount that gets you 10% and 20% off items at BPS its pretty hard to ignore.

 

Research, saving, and making those savings grow with smart investments is where it counts. Invest in what you know.

Im just glad you were prepared enough that you could get what yyou wanted and didnt have to settle for anything less.

That's great!  That boat will open up a whole new world for you on the water.

Im excited to take her out! but i gotta do some manual reading as well, plus the whole running the motor at only like 3000-4000 rpms for the first hour, that break in period.

 

I told my dad to be ready for our first tourney next month April 20th and then we got some pre-fishing to do!

That boat is gonna run like a raped ape with that motor.

haha first thing the old man said when he saw it was "Dang son did you get a big enough motor?"

 

Heck no! Let me put a 90HP on there!

No one ever said ... i wish I had a smaller motor

No one ever said ... i wish I had a smaller motor

Actually sometimes I say that. ...everytime i have to put gas in it.

We can swap boats, see how you like having a 25 at daybreak takeoff

Nah...ill keep my 200 and complain about it when i can.

Congratulations ~

 

Best of Luck with that Sweet Ride.

 

Won't be long before we start seeing some TrapperJ caught TOADS posted up in here . . .

 

A-Jay

Actually sometimes I say that. ...everytime i have to put gas in it.

I actually laughed out loud at that one.

 

TrapperJ I always wondered why my G3 175 was rated for a 90 and the Tracker 175TXW is rated for a 75. Anyway I only have a 60 and it does just fine running mid to high 30's. Youll love that boat. I saw all the incentives in a flyer they sent me and no wonder those boats are as popular as they are! Good luck with her!

Exactly what i saw when looking, same boat from another dealer but rated for 90HP, i had heard the Tracker 175 used to be rated for a 90HP, no idea why they changed. But i bet it flys with that 75 on there

 

I should have called in sick today to take it out... kind of hard though when you work for your old man and he knows you just bought a boat! ha

Exactly what i saw when looking, same boat from another dealer but rated for 90HP, i had heard the Tracker 175 used to be rated for a 90HP, no idea why they changed. But i bet it flys with that 75 on there

 

I should have called in sick today to take it out... kind of hard though when you work for your old man and he knows you just bought a boat! ha

 I think you'd be OK as long as you invite him too . . ..

Tell him you wouldn't think about taking it out for the first time without him - that should do it.

 

A-Jay

Congrats on the sweet little set up. That thing will take you everywhere a big boat will and more.

Im excited to take her out! but i gotta do some manual reading as well, plus the whole running the motor at only like 3000-4000 rpms for the first hour, that break in period.

 

I told my dad to be ready for our first tourney next month April 20th and then we got some pre-fishing to do!

Double check that in the manual. The ProXS I just got has a 4 hour break in period

Yeah we found it in the manual during the walkthrough, the optimax just had and 1 hour break in on keeping at 3000-4000 rpm for the first hour, then after then you could run full throttle but only in 10 sec burst or something i'll have to look again about the 2nd part of the break in period.

Yeah we found it in the manual during the walkthrough, the optimax just had and 1 hour break in on keeping at 3000-4000 rpm for the first hour, then after then you could run full throttle but only in 10 sec burst or something i'll have to look again about the 2nd part of the break in period.

This sounds right... I broke in my 115 optimax last year on my tracker.  The motor itself breaks itself in for the first 10 hours by using a gas-oil mix of 25:1 which is double oil than the regular 50:1.  But I remember the 3K-4K rpms for the first hour... it took a while to get on plane for me, but necessary to start out slow.  Then I think the second hour is not to run the same RPMs for more than a certain amount of time no matter what rpms it's at.  Just keep extra oil on the boat for the first 10 hours (or always for that matter ).  But just to be safe keep a little extra onboard.  Ha.  Congrats man, enjoy and be safe.