Years to avoid?

[JohnB]

Ok, I will stick my foot in here. The boats made before tracker where great boats with great hardware/rigging/etc. The boats made by tracker and later had some not so great fittings, hatches, etc. The boats where still solid, just alot of little things to chase around (I own one of these). Here is the catch 22. Lets say you buy a 70's seacraft. The stuff has 10-15 more years wear on all these things, and they probably need to be replaced, or you buy a late 80's tracker like mine, they probably need to be replaced. Either way you end up replacing a bunch of this stuff. In my final decision, I went with the newer boat with the hope I wouldn't have to face a transom redo for 5 or more years. That was my logic in picking a a late 80's early 90's boat. The prices where reasonable, and I didn't mind fixing a bunch of that kind of stuff. If you buy a good restored one ($$$$$), this stuff should all be taken care of. That's my 2 cents, hope I didn't offend any of the SeaCraft faithful out there. Good luck.