My new boat, hull ID help

[monkey_feet]

Hello. I just bought another boat for my kid, and I want to make sure I'm getting the hull number right.

The HID is ZFSB0316M83G

I see that it was made in 1983 in August (don't know what the "G" means) in Canada.

I have the sail number being 110,316

Am I right?

JH

 

[chemprof]

Hello. I just bought another boat for my kid, and I want to make sure I'm getting the hull number right.

The HID is ZFSB0316M83G

I see that it was made in 1983 in August (don't know what the "G" means) in Canada.

I have the sail number being 110,316

Am I right?

JH

I think you are correct, except (see below key) the M83G doesn't make sense -- M is August as you say, but for a boat made in 1983 for a model year 1984 say, the code would be M384.

M83G may be a mistake -- is it hard to read at all? Perhaps it is M889?

This is the info I have on the HIN (hull id numbers for laser):

In North America, these first 3 characters may be:

PFS = Performance Sailcraft (1971-1974) (Montreal, Québec, Canada: still manufacturing outside of the Americas.)
ZFS = Performance Sailcraft (1974 [as per hulls 16950-51626]-1985) (Point Claire, Québec)
PSC = Performance Sailcraft (19??-19??)
PSL = Performance Sailcraft USA (Owner Don Trask, San Rafael CA, 1973 to early '80s?)
PSI = Performace Sailcraft International (South Africa, until 1989)
ZID = Laser International (Ontario 1984-1991) Reincarnation of original Laser builder. (Also known as Performance Sailcraft Canada.)
PSB = Pearson Small Boats (1989-1991) (RI)
SLI = Sunfish Laser Inc (1991 to March 1997) New manufacturing facility.
OQT = Vanguard Sailboats Inc., RI (March 1997 to present) Initials stand for Quarter Moon Inc. Production continued in SLI facility which Vanguard purchased.

Next 5 digits are the Sail Number. If the sail number is great than 99,999, then the first digit is a character, where A=10, B=11, C=12 etc. (i.e. a letter followed by 5 digits).

Last 4 characters indicate when the boat was built and the model year. Usually 1 letter followed by 3 numbers. The letter indicates the month of manufacture (according to Sunfish/Laser Inc.): A=Aug, B=Sept, C=Oct, D=Nov, E=Dec, F=Jan, G=Feb, H=Mar, I=April, J=May, K=June, L=July.

The next number indicates the year the boat was built (not model year!), followed by a 2 number model year. Eg.
D494 = Built Nov (D) 1994 (4) for 1994 model year (94).
F697 = Built Jan (F) 1996 for 1997 model year (97)

For example: SLI F1234 F494 = Sunfish Laser Inc, Sail number 151234, Built in January 1994 for Model Year 1994.