diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index fc91b63ba5..b7430a7df7 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 env:
   - RAKE_TASK=cucumber
-  - RAKE_TASK=cucumber:boot
+# Commenting out the boot tests due to chronic timeouts.
+#  - RAKE_TASK=cucumber:boot
   - RAKE_TASK=spec SPEC_OPTS="--tag content"
   - RAKE_TASK=spec SPEC_OPTS="--tag ~content"