No just go by a Skeeter and you won't have any problems

Russ

Troy....Even better....Mack Randall, who had just won the Ranger 188 is reducing the price to .....get this........$25.000!!!!
Brand new.....all warranties and rights to Ranger Rewards program!
Just built and being delivered in March!!! You gotta call him!!!!
Its the 18-8' 150 E-Tec. He is getting the specs ready to post!

Troy,
  First of all, that SUCKS!  Secondly, "If", whomever you decide to take the boat to, decides that they will "try" and weld it (most likely what you will hear), there will be no warranty on the repair.  If I were you, I'd be there the day they take it apart, take lots of digital pictures of the process and repair BEFORE they put the boat back together and ABSOLUTELY be there when they are putting it back together.  The reason, the "floatation foam" that is sprayed in place during the manufacture process serves several purposes.  Obviously, floatation and believe it ot not, I think it is also structural.  The re-install process of the decking, foam and wiring. if done by the "yard hand" can be a disaster.  If the screws fastening the deck to the framing are "over sunk" or the wiring is left to "flop" around in the hull or stretched too tight, the could be a bigger mess is 6 months. Glenns point about JB WELD is a good one.  If the "repair guy/welder" doesn't prep the area right, extend the weld (heli-arc, not welding) several inches beyond the end of the crack, it WILL open up again.  I would suggest the pictures only so you have something to provide Tracker documenting it was done properly.  Since this problem presented itself under your warranty period and you had it repaired properly, when (not if) the damn thing starts leaking again, Tracker should continue to be responsible for that area.  FOREVER!!!  My .02

Russ,
  Wasn't it a "tin 19 ft. Skeeter" with a 150 at Banks lake a few years back at the jamboree that Nixons brought out for "test rides". If I'm not mistaken, it too split right down the keel from end to end?  We're not talking about "at the end of the day, there's alot of water in the boat", we're talking "thank god there's floataion in the boat"!!  It's not the fact that it's a Tracker and not a Skeeter, THEY SPLIT TOO!  It's because it's tin and not fiberglass (or Kevlar)   Cracks on "tin boats" are NOT brand specific.

Good memory Ron!!!
And by the way Russ, it seems that on these very pages not too long ago you were complaining about some problems with your Bug Bote.
They will all have some kind of problems sometime or the other.  Having a Skeeter nameplate doesn't make them bulletproof.  In the case of this state, the name of the boat just might mean they are difficult to get repaired.

Smitty

But Larry, didn't you coin the phrase, "If God had meant for there to be fiberglass boats, he would have made fiberglass rivets."

HAHAHA! 

Still sucks to hear a fellow member out of a boat, even for a little while.  We all know, well some of us know to buy the strongest boats, BassCat leading 
With the Lifetime Structural Warranty, thats transferable to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th owners... 
This is copied off the Skeeter website: "This structural warranty may be transferred during the 10 year warranty period to a second retail purchaser, according to the terms below. Structural Warranty to the second retail purchaser will expire 10 years from the first retail purchase date."
This is written down right next to a logo that says, Warranty, Strongest in the Industry 
BulletProof ???

Legend has it goin on too, not forgetting you guys.