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Originally Posted by Fr. Frank
The 1988 18' Superfisherman is designed to carry up to a 465 lb outboard motor and still be self-bailing. The hull is rated for 150 hp max, and was designed to carry the heaviest 150 in production at the time, the Suzuki DT150CTX, which weighs 465 lbs.
In contrast, according to them, the previous year, which was also Tracker built, was only designed to carry up to 140 hp, and 370 lbs on the transom.
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The irony is that Tracker can take credit for "the design" for 465lbs. when this 18 hull that came from Carl and Bill and they never built it for 465lbs.
The primary difference in this hull from mid 1987 when SIC ( 1980-1987)stopped producing was lighter cores and less glass (still a great boat). The 1987 boat that my family owns is a tank. It is too heavy for anything over 400lbs. -
That is why Ed said that an 87 only says 370LBS -because it would sink like my parents did with a 400 lb 2 stroke Johnson 150! (Tracker owned SeaCraft half of 1987, and they were selling off the old SIC boats that Tracker never built) . The primary difference from SIC back to Potter was a better strength to weight ratio with fiberglass schedules on Potter boats
AND the console is farther forward on SIC and Tracker 18SFs(that's the most noticeable design change). Under 400lbs is ideal for a Tracker,
465lbs is insane and is not self bailing, and 425 is do-able, but borderline.