Hull number?

LeatherneckPA · Post by **LeatherneckPA** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:10 am

According to the title my HIN is CBC47924M78B.

I understand that the 78B refers to the fact that Believer was made in September of 1978. And the CBC part is Chrysler Boat Company.

Can somebody tell me what my hull number is? I have a hard time believing they made 47,924 C-22's.

CaptainScott · Post by **CaptainScott** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:27 am

It seems per this article,
http://www.sailnet.com/forums/buying-bo ... g-hin.html

You have deciphered the serial number correctly.

Scott

Capt. Bondo · Post by **Capt. Bondo** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:11 am

...Ok since we have sister ships from the same model year.
My HID is CBC50029M78L, Happy Place was built 11 months after Believer and 2105 hulls later.

Doing rough math that would be a production run of over 20 years

Thats still a lot of boats, when did the Chrysler 22 go into production?

I just don't think they started at #1

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 11:38 am

It's possible that the hull numbers reflect the entire line of Chrysler Marine boats as opposed to just each model.

It doesn't seem likely that there's a model number involved since no one's HIN have any matching numbers.

I'll drop an email to Dave Hurrikain over at the www.chryslercrew.com and see if he has any input.
He may know, or may be able to contact a factory guy that does.

skyking · Post by **skyking** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 3:35 pm

How cool would it be to list all of our hull ID numbers to try and establish a Chrysler family tree so to speak!!

hp18carr · Post by **hp18carr** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 5:06 pm

Tim

To my understanding the Chrysler sailboat line for all practical matters came to a stop with the 1970 and 1980 model run. Making the 1980 c26 I'm overhauling one of the babies of the family... CBC63328M80G

Terrence
Wilmington N.C.
Chrysler 26 1980
Pandora (for now)

hp18carr · Post by **hp18carr** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:16 pm

1979 and 1980... my bad

Jmckamey · Post by **Jmckamey** » Wed Jun 09, 2010 10:31 am

You guys may have seen this before. Interesting reading on the history of chrysler marine at this link. www.allpar.com/history/marine.html

skyking · Post by **skyking** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:38 pm

I for one havnt seen this...thanks for sharing it with us

LeatherneckPA · Post by **LeatherneckPA** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:00 pm

I spent the vast majority of yesterday scrubbing the moss, lichens, and assorted other detritus off of Cinderella. Don't get me wrong, she still needs work, but she looks a whole lot better than she used to. Pics to follow in a different thread.

Just now I was reading the owner's manual to learn how to rig her for sail. In there I saw a part that said Attaching Racing Numbers. It says that the racing number is the last four digits of the serial number. So I think I finally figured out my hull number! According to Chrysler if your first digit is a 0 then only the last three count as your racing number. In my case that would be 0811 or 811.

Isn't the sail racing number usually the number of your hull in a series? So my 1970 Lone Star 16 is actually the 811th one built. I think? 1970 is before the creation of mandatory HIN's (1972), so Chrysler's serial number is all that matters. Now if I could only figure out what the 21800 part stands for ...

EmergencyExit · Post by **EmergencyExit** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 1:49 pm

[quote="LeatherneckPA"Isn't the sail racing number usually the number of your hull in a series?.[/quote]

Apparently not in the case of Chrysler - here's a quote form Avocet's page at

http://users.accesscomm.ca/gbabish/sail.html

. "we've found multiple boats having the same sail numbers, and most of the time the sail numbers do not correspond with the hull identification numbers posted on the transoms of the boats. One Chrysler factory worker who worked on manufacturing these boats in the 1970's indicated that Chrysler did not follow any one set of guidelines for establishing sail numbers."

LeatherneckPA · Post by **LeatherneckPA** » Sun Jun 20, 2010 3:34 pm

LOL, that figures. So the hull number is still a mystery.

TravisJ · Post by **TravisJ** » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:23 pm

The HIN stamp on my boat is:
CBC44411M76L

So that means it was made in July 1976?

There is also a metal plate rivited above the HIN that says:

CHRYSLER BOAT CORPORATION
334MK44411

I bought my C-22 in 2006 and it was on Lake Lewisville, TX, the closets lake to where the Chrysler factory was. It has the name "Evening Star" in script letters painted on the back. But a couple of years ago I was touching up the paint and noticed it had block letters under the blue paint, under the white name, and by tracing it out noticed that it had said "REVENGE". So at some point my boat got renamed.

LeatherneckPA · Post by **LeatherneckPA** » Wed Jun 23, 2010 3:47 am

I think re-naming is one of the FIRST things done to a recently acquired boat. Heck, I've re-named both of mine and neither one has touched water yet.