I'm doing a research poster on it and I realized some websites have it spelled either wayI've always spelled it as quot;aluminumquot; but I'm not sure anymoreAre they both correct oryeah?I feel dumb; please excuse my stupidity.
Can't answer that w/o knowing the rating for the boat are as you indicatedSo it's going to be a judgment callIf I had to guess a 50hp for fishing would do itTow it to a boat dealer that sells motors see if they have any books dealing with boats that oldThat's the best you can do in the short termDuracraft is still around so if you wanted to contact them, you might get lucky.
You can go with 35hp to 65hp .when you get in a race you still gotta turn around a the other shore make sure that the foam flotation under the seats is still good.And when you put the boat in the water and it leaks that is going to be the rivets that hold the aluminum boat togetherThe way that you fix this is by tightening those rivets (2 person job - one inside the boat with an anvil tool and the other under the boat with a hammer the 17footer is stable in the water and you will probably enjoy the fishing in that boat for yearsand it is safe in rough water.
In the USA it is spelled Aluminum, in England it is spelled Aluminium I am not sure how true this is but the story that I have heard behind this difference is that before the element was commonly used for baking and whatnot, it was like any other random element on the periodic table that the majority of Americans did not know the name ofThe American company Reynold's from nowaday's Reynold's Wrap misspelled the element on their packaging and since most of America did not know the correct spelling, it just became incorporated into American lingo as Aluminum.
Best check the transom see if it flex's or has a bow in it35 to 50 but it's the weight and condition of the boat.
