Sweet. I hope you and Dorothy enjoy many happy hours in the water. I grew up on the water and I really miss having access to a lake by boat. My late father was a boat distributor and dealer. He always said the most enjoyable days for a boat owner were the day he purchased the boat, and the day he sold the boat. I truly hope your boat ownership experience is far better.
Great boat. I have a 1996 model, but with only a 75 hp. Just a heads-up. Before 1998, they used aluminum fuel tanks that are foamed in. Salt water gets in under the foam and tank will eventually develop pinholes. Might not be a problem if you're never in salt, but it's something to keep an eye on.
Kind of yea yea and yea. I love Tracker Boats and was very close to buying a brand new Tracker 175 but a CC is more stable in rough water, it is safer too for kids like my grandson because you are down in the hull instead of up on it like a bass boat. This boat is also salt water ready so it opens bay trips to me, that is a costly upgrade to a tracker. Also you can really deck a boat like this out with T Tops, check this page out, www.strykerttops.com/v/vspfiles/ttop-gallery/key-west.asp In the end all the guides I know that fish our area lakes ALL own CC boats, not 75%, not 95% I mean all of them except dedicated bass guides. So we are talking crappie guides, sand bass guides, cat fish guides, striper/hybrid guides and all bay and in shore guides. When people who depend on something for their income all choose the same thing, I tend to go the way they do. This was also a SWEET DEAL, a new 1720 is about 26,500 I got this one for 5700. Now this is an older boat but it has a 2 stroke 115 on it they don't really make those any more, they are so much lighter this will move this boat like a 150 4 stroke may be better. The boat was taken care of so much so that it while faded a bit is like brand new, motor was totally rebuilt only 4 years ago, guy has all service paper work back to 96. The most similar 1720 in age I could find were selling for 8-10K and moving, almost none of them are in my area by the way. These boats are very popular with bay fishermen for obvious reasons. I basically made a deal to buy it sight unseen as long as it started and ran fine and looked like the pictures. The guy had to leave town and I set a day when he got back to bring him cash. Someone offered him 500 over my offer to sell it out from under me. I told him we had a deal, I am not going up, either your word is good or it isn't. He agreed and told the higher offer guy no. Stand up guy, he also "hates the fucking state" in his words, I told him he put his boat into good hands. LOL Finally he gave me hundreds of dollars in free shit, life jackets, bad ass anchor, brand new spare for the trailer, etc. All stuff I now don't have to buy.
