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| bshep, that is the boat I just bought to restore 2001 18' Tuffy Rampage magmum. Once I get done I was going to list the rebuild process and what I did to restore it. When I bought the boat it was in rough shape, now it is coming along. Once I get done here in a couple weeks I will post the rebuild, costs, and pictures.
The reason I bought this model is because what we are talking about here. It has big side tanks and a sponsored hull. I have fished 4 guys out of this boat and it is not a problem. We even had a trip with 5 guys, now that was tight and might have been illegal, but 3 guys standard. That is were those big side tanks come in. It is like a casting deck for the middle guy. Even with 4 guys on one side of the boat it does list that much because it is narrower. I'm not sold on the wider boat. I'm currently running a wide aluminium boat 98" while I like the extra room I find switching casting sides in back were I run the trolling motor from to be a pain. Also, because the boat get shallower as you move out to the sides it list more to the side than the narrower tuffy.
I'm in agreement with everybody as to the old interior, I like it. While I find it nice to sit next to your partner on the boat, on rough days with the wind and waves blowing back into the boat when everybody is sitting in the middle you stay dryer.
Here are the pictures of the Renegade I lost to some A holes trying to steel the motors off the boat. It was devastating.
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