The Tropic is a motor yacht and speedboat in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City , Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas , Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories , Grand Theft Auto IV , Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
The Tropic is a motor yacht and speedboat in GTA: Vice City, GTA: San Andreas, GTA: Vice City Stories, GTA IV, , GTA V and GTA Online. It is manufactured by Grotti in GTA IV and Shitzu in GTA V.
All iterations of the Tropic are essentially flybridge motor yachts or cabin cruisers, based on the Chris-Craft Corinthian 33.
The Tropic is evidently larger than most conventional boats, on par with the Marquis and the Rio. It features a long hull with tall hand rails and a large living space with opaque windows, while the back features an access ladder on the right and glass doors on the left that allow small visibility to the living space, along with additional accessories such as a lifebuoy on the left and a yellow box on the right. The bridge features the main controls on the front, as well as a bench seat on the rear. The stern features two small nozzles for the inboard engine.
*In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, the glass window allows limited visibility to a small kitchen, and the bridge is partially covered by a brownish structure, with the radar and antenna located on top. *In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the windows on the living space are semi-transparent, allowing the player to see a small living area with red curtains, cabinets, tables and two sofas, while keeping the aforementioned features. *In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, it retains the opaque windows and the small kitchen, but the flybridge is exposed, no longer featuring the brownish structure.
All renditions of the Tropic are available only in an all-white color, with the secondary one revealed to be applied to the floors of the rear deck and flybridge, the structure covering the flybridge and the bench seats, as well as the sofas and part of the cabinets in the GTA San Andreas iteration.
In Grand Theft Auto IV, the Tropic is still a cabin cruiser, but it has a low-profile cabin housed in its bulky hull, strongly resembling a Sea Ray 300 Sundancer.
The Tropic assumes a much smaller design compared to speedboats such as the Jetmax or the Squalo (with the title of largest boat belonging to the Tug, which is easily twice the size of the pre-GTA IV Tropic). The boat features a short and wide hull with a slight curvature towards the stern, while the cabin quarters are mostly finished in black and use a sleek windshield with silver/chrome trim, two bucket seats with rollbar loops for the front occupants and large bench seats for the rear occupants. The boat makes use of conventional propellers and small vents on the rear.
The Tropic can spawn in different variations with pre-determined extras, which primarily affect the bow, gunwales and cabin: *The first one has a flat, primary-painted front deck with short frames and trim finished in silver/chrome, short hand rails around the bow, cleats located near the windshield and a rectangular glass around the middle, while the small handles are located around the middle section of the gunwales. *The second one is a variation of the first, having a secondary-colored deck short hand rails finished in silver/chrome, the same cleats near the windshield (albeit rotated) and a wider rectangular glass in the middle, while the cabin quarters have a wakeboard above. The small handles are also located on the rearmost section of the gunwales. *The third one has a flat, secondary-colored deck with long hand rails finished in black, while a spoiler is seen mounted around the middle, over the ends of the windshield. The gunwales have no handles around. *The fourth one has a concave deck with tall hand rails, while the cabin quarters have a painted arch with short retractable canvass roofs on both ends and a short top-mounted antenna on the right half. Small handles can also be seen on the rearmost section of the gunwales, but they are located on the top surfaces. *The fifth one has an elevated deck with short frames and a circular glass in the middle, while the bow has tall hand rails with an extra horizontal frame in the middle. The cabin quarters feature a similar painted arch with a rear retractable canvass roof, but the front section has a small solid roof with a glass fairing connected to the windshield, and a taller antenna on the left half. Small handles can be also seen on the sides of the arch and on the rearmost section of the gunwales.
