gnappi
Well-known member
I have a Tracker 1032, and I love the boat. It has two issues I think I can remedy with another 10' brand / model. Those issues are first the rocking / listing stability on the water, and the 320 lb max capacity. If I upgrade my boat the things I want to achieve are:
More beam, and more weight capacity while keeping the boat easy to handle from a full size pickup truck alone... I'm 65 in good shape but don't want to kill myself either. I will NOT consider a boat longer than 10' at all.
I was digging around the web, and the specs became blurred so I wrote a spreadsheet to organize my thoughts to be able to compare them fairly. The red fields pretty much threw them out of the running for my purposes, yellow is an improvement and green is even more of an improvement. White is a don't care, like horsepower (I run all electric) and price is meh, again I don't care.
If not for the nearly double weight of the Alweld over my current boat it would likely have been my choice. So it "looks" like the Tracker 1036 increases my beam (more interior space), in water width (better stability) and loaded weight capacity, as do the Alumacraft 1036 (looks the best on paper of the three) and G3 1036 with minimal increase in weight.
So, considering my issues what makers of the three (Tracker, Alumacraft, and G3) in terms of reliability and quality of build would give the best service? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Oh, and ANY other brands / models in 10' I should consider are welcome too.
More beam, and more weight capacity while keeping the boat easy to handle from a full size pickup truck alone... I'm 65 in good shape but don't want to kill myself either. I will NOT consider a boat longer than 10' at all.
I was digging around the web, and the specs became blurred so I wrote a spreadsheet to organize my thoughts to be able to compare them fairly. The red fields pretty much threw them out of the running for my purposes, yellow is an improvement and green is even more of an improvement. White is a don't care, like horsepower (I run all electric) and price is meh, again I don't care.
If not for the nearly double weight of the Alweld over my current boat it would likely have been my choice. So it "looks" like the Tracker 1036 increases my beam (more interior space), in water width (better stability) and loaded weight capacity, as do the Alumacraft 1036 (looks the best on paper of the three) and G3 1036 with minimal increase in weight.
So, considering my issues what makers of the three (Tracker, Alumacraft, and G3) in terms of reliability and quality of build would give the best service? Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Oh, and ANY other brands / models in 10' I should consider are welcome too.