1. Just got my second laser and it doesn't have a serial number on the stern like my first one. It has a sticker in the cockpit but it's illegible. Trying to register the boat is getting tricky.The only number I see on the boat is under the bow handle and it reads 3495. I read somewhere that's the serial number for the oldest lasers? is this right and what year would it make this boat?
2. I want to stack these boats on my single boat trailer. I see intensity sells a a foam stacker kit but it has no place for spars. Does anyone sell what I'm looking for now? I've given it a good thorough search, links? Or does anyone have a DIY idea on this? Seems easy enough I reckon.
Recognizing my own writing in the above post, I want to add what I said in a later post in that original thread: ...the drLaser list isn't comprehensive by any means. I understand it represents, for each year, the smallest and largest numbers known to its compiler. As some years have only a single number, it indicates that the list is based on a fairly small data set.
Also, the numbers on that list are very likely reported numbers, rather than confirmed ones.
So, the early 1970s boats' building years will remain only estimates until better (preferably official/original) data shows up. (And there's uncertainty over the late 1970s, too, and I would question some early 1990s years as well.)
But if you want to know more about your boat, post pictures of it which could help in determining its age: of the cockpit decal (no matter how illegible), bow number, blades, cockpit rails, rudder gudgeons, the sail (numbers and the tack area), and hull/deck colour.
Yes, we're not even talking about how the different builders' (of which there were nine active at the same time during the peak years) numbers correlate. I believe they're nowadays given in yearly batches; no idea how it was done in the 1970s, and it's possible that there is no documentation left. Maybe only Kirby himself would remember.
My understanding from PSA is they order and receive a batch of numbers. Australia typically 50 numbers, but I suspect in the USA/EU the batches are probably 100 or 200.