That's a possibility that crossed my mind as well. I assume that few boats moved permanently across the Tasman Sea (and the trademark border) at the time, but of course I could be wrong. Even so, this boat could be the rare exception.I have seen a very similar colour on a New Zealand built 100k hull.
I have, and they had short codes (not sail numbers) in that position. These were much newer (post-2000) boats though.maybe it is a Japanese hull (PSJ) - I am afraid I have never seen a hull number from a PSJ boat to know what format they were.
Brazilian boats had "PSB" in front of the sail number, and Chilean boats used a coding akin to the North American one.maybe a SouthAmerican hull, but I can't remember the dates off the top of my head for the opening/closurures of the Brazilian / Chilean / Argentinian Laser factories.
The Chilean manufacturer that built the boats for those Worlds, and till 2005 (or so) was Primex, not "Femoglas". 25I believe the Chilean factory opened in 1984 - see below extract from Beam Reach Number 19 from late 1984/early 1985. And I know they produced the boats for the 1997 Worlds in Chile, so they were going for a reasonable length of time.
Cool listMine would look very similar except:
- "PFS" and "ZFS" were the same thing, just different codes
- I don't think "PSC" stood for any separate builder, either
- there was a Swiss builder in Neuchâtel, who operated in the early 80s and probably already in the late 70s
- I'm counting LaserPerformance separately from PSE, as well as LP(US) being a separate subsidiary._