Thread: Check your bunks

Hockey 86 I've done changed my one time. Put treated lumber on mine.


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those composite decking boards work too

Originally Posted by gobbler

those composite decking boards work too

That's what I will put on mine when the need arrives.

Hunter and I were talking about this over the winter. Why Tracker does not use treated lumber is beyond me.

Originally Posted by REDBOAT

Hunter and I were talking about this over the winter. Why Tracker does not use treated lumber is beyond me.

a dollar saved is a dollar earned ((cheap))

I'll be interested to see if it's treated or not when I take it off but from the looks of it I have my doubts. Tracker, like any other company would too, has cut a few corners but I had a couple fixed for free and without much hassle when I first boat the boat. To name a couple, the locks they put on all the compartments were absolutely worthless. All of the mechanism was plastic. You could put the key in, lock it, then with minimal turning pressure on the handle it would pop right open. I was actually able to track down a person at the Tracker factory and they sent me all new locks with metal mechanisms. Still not the greatest but much much better. I also had a problem with the push to turn on convenience lights staying on and would not go off killing my battery. They sent me all new and improved ones. I was pretty happy with customer service. Just wish they would've spent an extra $10 and put on treated wood bunks. Gonna cost me $75 to fix a problem that shouldn't have happened for several more years. I guess you look at it from their prospective, $10 per boat with 5,000 boats made in a year equals a cool $50,000 in the bank. Makes a nice bonus for some executive.

It's not treated. We had to replace the bunk boards on Charles' Targa a couple of months ago. They were completely rotten. He was just a few weeks from potential serious damage to his boat. I asked the Tracker guy at BassPro about the bunk boards and he thought they were treated. No way--just that cheap Canadian pine that rots very easily. The boards are treated now, but a serious lack of proper trailer building by Tracker. If anyone finds a good place to complain, please let us know.

They aren't the only ones. My boat is a Princecraft, made north of the border. It came with white pine bunks and were a odd size, either 4 1/2" or 5" wide board.