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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mbullen" data-source="post: 515779" data-attributes="member: 24594">Duracraft is one of the grandfather aluminum boat companies beginning business immediately after WW2.  It is still a family run business now known as War Eagle. Vintage Duracraft, however, is famously hard to date, though.  They used a serial system that numbered boats sequentially off the line.  Every model and every year just carried on the sequential numbers.  No hidden codes to uncover and no records to reference.  One basically has to treasure hunt old brochures for features and just guess or compare your serial to someone else's known boat with good paperwork. That only applies up to 1972, though.  After which, the federal HIN system was in play and info can be gleaned off of the mandatory HIN plate found on the outside starboard transom.<a href="http://www.fiberglassics.com/library/index.php?title=Duracraft" target="_blank">http://www.fiberglassics.com/library/index.php?title=Duracraft</a></blockquote>