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<blockquote data-quote="DuraCraft" data-source="post: 168552" data-attributes="member: 4326"><p>jdret! Man, you have made my day!! I cannot believe what you found! Both of those boats - your Duracraft is exactly like mine. I am pretty certain it is not the Pacemaker in the ad you linked. Notice that yours does not have the flared transom sides. Check to see - isn't the transom on yours flat from side to side? If so, it is not the same as in the ad. Look at the ad and you will see that the transom flares up just a tad at the ends.</p><p></p><p>My Dad bought my Duracraft in 1957, and it was used then. Been mine since he died in '94, and I have fished in it since I was 8, when he bought it. Let me tell you, these are TOUGH boats! I will be very surprised if yours leaks at all. Ours never has. It had a 7.5 HP (I think) Elgin when my Dad bought it, which he soon replaced with a 7.5 HP Evinrude, which I replace with a 9.5 HP Evinrude in 1968, and now has a 15 HP Johnson, which is about perfect for it. Rating at the front plate says rated for 457 pounds, and 10 HP motor, but 15 is not too much at all. Mine is about 48" beam. I have posted on here about moving the front seat back some, but if I were you, I wouldn't touch the other two seats. Here is photo of front of mine with the seat I want to move back about 10" or so. Too cramped in front of that seat, however, I spent many a day up there! I'm south of you, in Jackson. I would love to come see your boats sometime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DuraCraft, post: 168552, member: 4326"] jdret! Man, you have made my day!! I cannot believe what you found! Both of those boats - your Duracraft is exactly like mine. I am pretty certain it is not the Pacemaker in the ad you linked. Notice that yours does not have the flared transom sides. Check to see - isn't the transom on yours flat from side to side? If so, it is not the same as in the ad. Look at the ad and you will see that the transom flares up just a tad at the ends. My Dad bought my Duracraft in 1957, and it was used then. Been mine since he died in '94, and I have fished in it since I was 8, when he bought it. Let me tell you, these are TOUGH boats! I will be very surprised if yours leaks at all. Ours never has. It had a 7.5 HP (I think) Elgin when my Dad bought it, which he soon replaced with a 7.5 HP Evinrude, which I replace with a 9.5 HP Evinrude in 1968, and now has a 15 HP Johnson, which is about perfect for it. Rating at the front plate says rated for 457 pounds, and 10 HP motor, but 15 is not too much at all. Mine is about 48" beam. I have posted on here about moving the front seat back some, but if I were you, I wouldn't touch the other two seats. Here is photo of front of mine with the seat I want to move back about 10" or so. Too cramped in front of that seat, however, I spent many a day up there! I'm south of you, in Jackson. I would love to come see your boats sometime. [/QUOTE]
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