must be the ceramic coating

A straight bottom 42 is an Apache twin. They don’t get as much love despite being much newer.

I owned a 2001 TS Tiger for 7 years and only ever had it porpoise when in flat lake water trimmed out. The boat was an absolute wave crusher and loved the rough stuff. It does not have a balance problem but the early models had a little more lift in the front to ride over waves rather than through them. i've been on a lot of different boats over the years and haven't had one ride as nice in the bigger water. I just bought a new boat and sold the tiger (hope I didn't make a mistake). I did keep blowing drives the first 3 years and changed to Imco SCX Extremes and solved the problem. Had the uppers on 4 years before any rebuilding and changed the lower gears every season as preventative maintenance. Seemed like I had more room in the engine compartment then my friends 38TG, Also the door to the cabin was bigger, Had 2 big lockers in cabin.

I can’t speak to the T/S boats (beyond my pay grade) but my flat bottom tiger definitely porpoises without a good amount of trim. I can’t compare it to a TG either but I can compare it to my Cafe and there was a significant size difference. 42 is plenty more to tow that’s for sure.

And how cool was the electric sliding cabin door !!!! It was like someone discovered gold when I saw that for the first time! HAHAHA....

the side by sides did well, once they tried to stagger them, there was a cog issue, thats when they did the 42X... there were only a few stagger tigers and they didnt handle well at all.

because its quality, something you know nothing about... because its not on the shelf at walmart.

It is the Apache Twin, Except that the Apaches were Rigged with SPEEDMASTERS and TRANSMISSIONS and could handle the Horsepower. You figure all APACHE's in that size range have at least 700HP. No Proposing because of the CG and the Weight of the RUNNING GEAR!

Liked the steps in the door as well.